Articles Tagged: Carbon sequestration

The South Dakota commission also unanimously refused the company’s request to preempt county pipeline setback ordinances.

A new phase of Summit Carbon Solutions’ evidentiary hearing for its pipeline permit is poised to begin Tuesday. The company plans to call its 15 witnesses to testify over the course of four days, according to the Iowa Utilities Board.

Anna Ryon left the state office in May following adoption of a massive state reorganization law

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A Tama town hall Tuesday was her 29th town hall since being elected to Congress in 2020, and her ninth in-person town hall this year.

Three Iowa landowners -- all women -- testified Tuesday about their fears and frustrations about a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline being built by their homes, crops and dairy cows.

Supporters of two CO2 sequestration pipelines say they've already secured easements in Minnesota without the use of eminent domain — a law that has produced ire in Iowa and South Dakota.

While the Iowa Utilities Board will decide whether three carbon dioxide pipelines get state permits, other government bodies must sign off on parts of these multibillion dollar projects. And some local regulations may throw a wrench in the works.

Models that predict consequences of CO2 leak could aid saboteurs, the company argues.

“Without a North Dakota permit, Summit has no project,” wrote Wally Taylor, an attorney for the Sierra Club, in a motion to suspend the permit proceedings in Iowa.

Navigator is the second company to propose a sprawling pipeline system in Iowa to transport captured carbon dioxide away from ethanol plants and other facilities.

The pipeline company resists an order it share details privately with the Farm Bureau and Sierra Club, saying the groups may release the data to the public despite restrictions.

Summit proposed the pipeline to capture carbon dioxide from more than 30 ethanol plants in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, and to store it deep underground in North Dakota.

But the company has yet to file list of properties subject to eminent domain, though it has promised it in May.

A group of South Dakota lawmakers has begun circulating a petition in hopes of forcing a special session to protect private property rights against the developers of a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline.