(Des Moines) Although the Summit Carbon Pipeline now has approval in Iowa, North and South Dakota are still holding it up.
“It’s a pipeline to know where because they are capturing the Co2 in Iowa, and they have to ship it to North Dakota,” said Jess Mazour, Iowa Sierra Club. “It makes no sense that the IUC approved a permit for a company that does not have approval in other states.”
The Iowa Public Utilities Commission approved a permit for the Iowa segments of the Summit Pipeline, but a recent ruling by the South Dakota Supreme Court sides with landowners. They don’t want Summit to use eminent domain to build the pipeline on their land.
Summit Carbon Solutions plans to partner with numerous ethanol plants across Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska to capture carbon dioxide from the fermentation process of ethanol plants and send it to North Dakota via underground pipelines, where it will be stored permanently and safely. The original plan for Summit Carbon Solutions was to install a network of 690 miles of pipe; however, when another company abandoned plans for a similar project, Summit Carbon Solutions proposed an expansion of another 340 miles in the state. The expansion includes Guthrie County.
