Summit Petitions Iowa Regulators to Remove Dakotas Requirement From Pipeline Permit

(Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight via the North Dakota Monitor)

(North Dakota Monitor) – Summit Carbon Solutions has filed a petition to amend its pipeline permit with the Iowa Utilities Commission.

The petition, filed on Monday, requests route and pipe-size modifications to add an ethanol plant to the route and to “amend the conditions regarding North Dakota and South Dakota.”

In the IUC’s approval of the CO2 pipeline permit through Iowa, it noted Summit could not begin construction until it had received route and storage permission from North Dakota — where the pipeline is slated to deposit the sequestered carbon in an underground rock formation — and route permission from South Dakota.

South Dakota enacted a law earlier this year to stop the use of eminent domain on carbon sequestration pipelines, and has denied Summit’s permit requests twice. Summit’s permits were approved in North Dakota, but have been tied up in litigation.