Overview
- Summit Carbon Solutions, which filed route revisions Wednesday with the Iowa Utilities Commission, cut about 200 miles from its Midwest CO2 pipeline and removed more than 400 landowners from the footprint.
- The updated route would run through Iowa and Nebraska to a storage site in Wyoming, serving 27 ethanol plants in Iowa and omitting any mention of North Dakota or South Dakota.
- Eight Iowa counties were dropped from the path: Shelby, Pottawattamie, Montgomery, Adams, Worth, Page, Fremont and Mitchell, and four Iowa ethanol plants were eliminated from the plan.
- The change follows court and policy hurdles, including a North Dakota judge voiding a storage permit in March and South Dakota’s new law that bars eminent domain for CO2 pipelines.
- Summit says it will keep permits and easements in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota for possible later phases, and critics pressed for withdrawal as some landowners reported being paid without notice of the change.