Midwest Carbon Capture Pipeline Plans Major Expansion

This week, Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions announced a partnership that will expand the footprint of its massive carbon capture pipeline across the Midwest. Summit has been working on getting approvals for its proposed pipeline, which spans across a 2,000-mile web of pipelines in five states: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. This project will capture carbon dioxide from ethanol plants, compress the captured CO2, and move it to North Dakota, where it will be permanently stored underground in storage locations. The company must obtain right-of-way easements from landowners along the project, including much farmland that would be disturbed, lowering production for affected farmers. Landowners who refuse to grant an easement may face eminent domain, allowing the company to take the land....