Carbon Pipeline Company Seeks Dismissals of North Dakota Court Challenges

 Attorney Derrick Braaten. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)

( By: Jeff Beach .- North Dakota Monitor) –  Summit Carbon Solutions is asking North Dakota judges to dismiss appeals in different legal challenges to its five-state carbon capture and storage project.

Attorneys for Summit and North Dakota landowners argued a Summit request for dismissal in a Burleigh County Court on Tuesday. Landowners have appealed the legality of the North Dakota Industrial Commission’s order granting Summit permission to pump carbon dioxide into underground sequestration sites in Mercer, Oliver and Morton counties.

Summit also has filed motions to dismiss appeals related to the North Dakota Public Service Commission’s pipeline route permit.

Summit is attempting to move carbon captured at ethanol plants in five states to the underground storage site in North Dakota through a network of pipelines