North Dakota PSC Combines Lawsuits Against Summit Carbon Solutions

Clint Feland sits next to a sign opposing the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)

(North Dakota Monitor) – Two lawsuits involving pipeline company Summit Carbon Solutions and the North Dakota Public Service Commission have been combined.

The PSC, which approved a route permit Iowa-based Summit last year, requested that the two lawsuits be merged.

One lawsuit is led by Burleigh County, the other by a group of landowners who oppose Summit’s proposed five-state carbon capture pipeline that would end at an underground storage area northwest of Bismarck.

In requesting the consolidation, attorney Zachary Pelham, representing the PSC, said “the two appeals are a mirror image.”

Attorneys for Burleigh County and Summit Carbon Solutions did not object to the consolidation.