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 * Adam- 2N**

Carbon regulation is coming and CCS technology is advancing – facilitating regulated transportation infrastructure is key to jump-starting the commercial industry
Cyrus, "Note: Regulating Carbon Capture and Sequestration: A Federal Regulatory Regime to Promote the Construction of a National Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Network," 80 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 950, Lexis Rising food prices, 1 mass migration, 2 new endangered species, 3 severe AND legislation that promotes the construction of new CO<2> pipelines. 17
 * Zarraby 12** - chemical engineer for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, JD expected from GWU in 2012

The entire project depends on a federal initiative for a national pipeline network
Jennifer, "Getting from Here to There: Devising an Optimal Regulatory Model for CO<2> Transport in a New Carbon Capture and Sequestration Industry," 30 J. Land Resources %26 Envtl. L. 357, Lexis Siting regulations affect companies~’ ability to build where pipelines are needed, or wanted. AND , a uniform set of requirements for access will be far more workable.
 * Horne 10** – JD @ U of Utah

USfg must approve any interstate pipelines Phillips 11 Bachelor~’s in International Relations, Reporter (Susan, August 5, 2011, "A Pipeline Primer: Who, How, Where and What The Heck?" []. H

So, can companies just lay pipelines wherever they want? Not really. First, rights of way needed to be secured from private and AND it~’s an inter­state line and falls within the jurisdiction of FERC.

It~’s reverse causal – federal inaction creates uncertainty that deters private investment in CCS- investment is key
Cyrus, "Note: Regulating Carbon Capture and Sequestration: A Federal Regulatory Regime to Promote the Construction of a National Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Network," 80 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 950, Lexis C. Carbon Capture and Sequestration - Lowering Emissions While Still Utilizing the United States~’ AND 2> pipelines creates the very uncertainty that would limit private investment. 88
 * Zarraby 12** - chemical engineer for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, JD expected from GWU in 2012

Carbon sequestration is key to averting negative economic consequences of carbon regulations
"Report of the Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage," http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/downloads/CCS-Task-Force-Report-2010.pdf While CCS can be applied to a variety of stationary sources of CO2, its AND (EOR), and assist in the creation of new technologies for export.
 * EPA 10** – US Environmental Protection Agency

Having coal as a utility option is key – any alternative drastically increases consumer energy costs
Cyrus, "Note: Regulating Carbon Capture and Sequestration: A Federal Regulatory Regime to Promote the Construction of a National Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Network," 80 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 950, Lexis In the United States, coal-fired power generation accounts for approximately forty- AND on foreign sources of energy and increase the costs associated with electricity generation.
 * Zarraby 12** - chemical engineer for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, JD expected from GWU in 2012

This collapses all major sectors of the economy
Adam and Dan, "The Economic Impacts of Coal Utilization and Displacement in the Continental United States, 2015," http://www.americaspower.org/sites/all/themes/americaspower/images/pdf/penn-state-study.pdf We performed our analysis with the aid of an interindustry, or input-output AND industries generate "multiplier" effects throughout the U.S. economy.
 * Rose and Wei 6** - * Professor of Energy, Environmental and Regional Economics, **Graduate Assistant in the Department of Geography at the Pennsylvania State University

US economic competitiveness prevents multiple scenarios for global nuclear conflicts
With the global financial system in serious trouble, is America~’s geostrategic dominance likely to AND . The economic crisis could be the straw that breaks the camel~’s back.
 * Friedberg %26 Schoenfeld 8** (Aaron Friedberg is a professor of politics and international relations at Princeton University~’s Woodrow Wilson School. Gabriel Schoenfeld, senior editor of Commentary, is a visiting scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, N.J., "The Dangers of a Diminished America," Wall Street Journal, Ocbtober 21, 2008,http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html]

Warming is real and human induced – drastic emissions reductions are key to avoid dangerous climate disruptions
Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group I for the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 3-8-2011, "CLIMATE SCIENCE AND EPA~’S GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATIONS," CQ Congressional Testimony, Lexis In early 2007, at the time of the publication of WG1 of AR4, AND next five to ten years, reaching near zero well within this century.
 * Somerville 11 – Professor of Oceanography @ UCSD**

Warming is an existential risk – quickening reductions is key to avoiding extinction
Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122 The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2 AND adaptation to these extremes would mean profound social, cultural and political changes.
 * Mazo 10** – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA

External of warming - Unmitigated carbon emissions cause extinction.
Joe Romm is a Fellow at American Progress and is the editor of Climate Progress, "Science: Ocean Acidifying So Fast It Threatens Humanity~’s Ability to Feed Itself," 3/2/ 2012, http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/02/436193/science-ocean-acidifying-so-fast-it-threatens-humanity-ability-to-feed-itself/?utm_source=feedburner%26utm_medium=email%26utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogre

The world~’s oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they AND corals, mollusks and some plankton need for reef and shell-building.

CCS solves and immediate action is necessary
James, "SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE," http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View%26FileStore_id=96b0a903-32fc-47f8-9a36-b4ddd9805e2b Carbon capture and storage (CCS) for coal-fired power plants is a AND be an obsession, and receive a great deal more attention and resources.
 * Rogers 7** - *CEO of Duke Energy

CCS is a critical bridge to a broader portfolio of sustainable energy
Sarah, CCS Guidelines: Guidelines for Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport, and Storage, World Resources Institute, http://pdf.wri.org/ccs_guidelines.pdf Scenarios for stabilizing climate-forcing emissions suggest atmospheric CO2 stabilization can only be accomplished AND enabling it to be used as a bridge to a sustainable energy future.
 * Forbes et al 8** - senior associate at the World Resources Institute, former member of the National Energy Technology Laboratory

Chinese natural gas demand is projected to increase exponentially
Yan 11 (Zhou, "China~’s natural gas imports expected to increase" China Daily, December 12 2011, [])//MR

China~’s reliance on natural gas imports will continue, accounting for more than half of AND year earlier to 115.9 billion cu m, the NDRC said.

Prioritizing carbon infrastructure ends the shift to natural gas
Frank et al 9 - research associate in the CSIS Energy and National Security Program Matthew, "Crossing the Natural Gas Bridge," CSIS, http://csis.org/files/attachments/090624_Crossing_Bridge.pdf

Aggressive action on renewables, efficiency, CCS, and nuclear power is needed to AND • Increase the support for and effectiveness of energy R%26D spending.

Only the plan is modeled – BRIC countries won~’t cut emissions unless they can avoid economic cost
Jay, "Incentives for Near-Term Carbon Dioxide Geological Sequestration," Carnegie Mellon, http://wpweb2.tepper.cmu.edu/ceic/pdfs_other/Incentives_for_Near-Term_Carbon_Dioxide_Geological_Sequestration.pdf The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report projects that if AND the 2005 U.S. economy are shown in figure 28 below.
 * Apt et al 7** – PhD in Physics @ MIT, Professor of Technology, Tepper School of Business and Engineering and Public Policy

Even absent modeling, domestic development leads to Chinese CCS integration
Yang 12 – Washington, D.C.-based business journalist and communications professional, with in-depth experience in China, technology, economics, and other policy issues (Catherine, "Amid U.S.-China Energy Tension, "Clean Coal" Spurs Teamwork" National Geographic News, The Great Energy Challenge, February 13 2012, []

In China, coal is king. U.S. energy companies, from AND two nations that lead the world in both carbon emissions and coal reserves.

Chinese natural gas demands strengthen the Sino-Russian alliance and undermine US-China energy cooperation
Medlock et al. 11 – Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics; Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies, Peter R. Hartley, Ph.D., Rice Scholar, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and George and Cynthia Mitchell Professor of Economics, Rice University ("Shale Gas and U.S. National Security" James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, July 2011, [])//MR

Under all scenarios, China becomes a major importer of natural gas both via pipeline AND manner that is detrimental to U.S. allies in the region.

Energy cooperation is key to US-China relations
BBC 11 ("China, USA discuss future energy cooperation" BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific, 19 January 2011, [])//MR

Constructive cooperation between China and the United States in the clean energy field could serve AND and create more common interests, China~’s ENN Group chairman Wang Yusuo said.

US China relations solve global nuclear war and extinction
Wittner 11—emeritus professor of history at SUNY (Lawrence, pg. 11/28/11 http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446)//MR

But what would that "victory" entail? A nuclear attack by China would AND that of the world, they should be working to encourage these policies.

Russia-China military alliance kills U.S. hegemony and causes war
Blank 9 (Stephen Blank, Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, March 2009, "Russia And Arms Control: Are There Opportunities For The Obama Administration?," online: [])

Consequently, the danger is that this ideological-strategic rivalry will harden, leading AND of joint military action in response to a regime crisis in the DPRK.

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