(Harlan) On Tuesday, the Shelby County Board of Supervisors passed a unanimous motion to submit an official comment/objection for the docket regarding the Summit Carbon Pipeline.
According to the press release, the supervisors do not object to installing this pipeline; however, it believes the right of the passage should lie with the county’s landowners.
While the board of supervisors does harbor responsibilities monitoring construction and other local regulatory particulars, the use of Eminent Domain should reserve the benefit of publicly owned or community service infrastructure. The supervisors say using it for this type of project would be an inappropriate use of this measure.
The Board of Supervisors requests the Iowa Utilities Board deny the use of Eminent Domain for privately owned hazardous liquid pipelines to include the Summit Carbon Capture Pipeline.
It’s the board’s opinion that privately held land interactions/transactions should negotiate between the private entities involved.
