North Dakota landowners testified for and against a carbon capture company’s use of eminent domain at a legislative committee hearing on Friday.
Some landowners said carbon companies should not be able to forcibly buy people’s land.
Other landowners said carbon companies should be able to so they can complete pipeline construction quickly and serve an important public interest.
Summit Carbon Solutions’ $4.5 billion proposed pipeline would reduce the state’s carbon footprint and allow North Dakotans to continue working in energy and agriculture.
The massive underground system of carbon dioxide pipelines would span 2,000 miles across several states, running under hundreds of people’s homes and farms in the Midwest.
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