Articles Tagged: Carbon sequestration

An ordinance adopted by Western Iowa’s Shelby County that would severely restrict the placement of a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline conflicts with state and federal regulations, judge rules.

Iowa regulators considering requests to delay the evidentiary hearing for Summit’s proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, and there is also a pending motion to dismiss the company’s petition for a permit.

The survey work for Summit Carbon Solutions will help determine the path and depth of the company’s proposed pipeline, which is set for a final permit hearing later this year.

Carbon tax credits are a “challenge to industry that says ‘if you can do this thing that makes sense for the climate, the U.S. government will pay you potentially tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars in funding for solutions’,” said Noah Deich, deputy assistant secretary for carbon management at the U.S. Department of Energy.

A 31-mile length of pipe would connect the Absolute Energy ethanol plant near St. Ansgar to Summit’s proposed pipeline network that is to span over 2,000 miles in five states.

The change comes after a shake-up in leadership on the regulatory board. Now two of the three members who will decide on the contentious proposals have been on the board just since May.

A carbon dioxide pipeline company did not properly notify a pair of northwest Iowa landowners before it sought to survey their farmland, a state district court judge has concluded.

CapCO2 Solutions and Adkins Energy LLC, based in Lena, Illinois, will partner for a project to test technology that would capture CO2 at the plant, combine it with hydrogen and turn it into green methanol -- a desirable renewable fuel.

Experts discussed plume modeling and emergency response at Des Moines meeting of federal regulator

Many Iowans want federal regulators to expect more from carbon dioxide capture pipeline developers, and trust the companies less when it comes to policing their own systems.

, a new not-for-profit organization, wants to “take away some of the noise” and talk about how Iowa could benefit financially from projects that would capture CO2 from ethanol plants and use it for industrial purposes or

CO2 pipeline opponents see it as attempt to push landowners to sign agreements

Navigator Heartland Greenway on Thursday announced a deal with electrofuels provider Infinium to provide 600,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year from ethanol plants connected to Navigator’s proposed pipeline.

Among them: C02 pipeline restrictions, sale of birth control pills with a prescription, guns in school parking lots, parental permission for social media

In a Clay County case in northwest Iowa, a district judge said the law violated Iowa's constitution because it does not provide for just compensation for certain damages owed to landowners who lose their right to deny entry to their land.