On Saturday, we posted in Matt Birk loves the ethanol carbon dioxide pipeline proposed by Summit Carbon Solutions:
Never mind that Thursday's headlines suggest Minnesota's neighbors aren't as uncritical about Summit Carbon Solutions as Mr. Nuance. Mankato's KEYC used Dakota News Now report, South Dakota landowners question credibility of Summit Carbon Solutions owners, leadership, just a couple of days after the Aberdeen American News reported Brown County Commission approves one-year moratorium on transmission pipelines.
A reader suggested it's worth a deeper look at that first headline, the Dakota News Now report, South Dakota landowners question credibility of Summit Carbon Solutions owners, leadership:
While the South Dakota public utilities commission continues to review the CO2 pipeline application from Summit Carbon Solutions, nearby states are doing the same. In Iowa, a resident submitted her research findings to the Iowa public utility board, claiming ownership connections to SKE&S, which she says is also SK holdings, a company fined over 70 million dollars for defrauding US military contracts.
Attorney Brian Jorde with Domina Law Group represents South Dakota Landowners and has reviewed the documents.
The Department of Justice Documents show SK Holdings pleaded guilty in 2018 and again in 2020 to Government Fraud. Another case was listed as a settlement, while another is still pending.
“The South Korean entity has taken a 10% ownership in Summit carbon solutions. Is this who you want, owning operating a pipeline through your state?” said Jorde.
Ed Fischbach of Spink county meets with neighbors fighting the pipeline.
“We’re calling on ethanol companies that have signed up now with Summit. If they didn’t know about this, it’s time to pull the plug, and they should get out,” said Fischbach. However, he says he also feels bad for those who have already signed land use agreements and are now discovering more about the company.
In addition to foreign interest concerns, others are questioning how the South Dakota Republican Party Chair, Dan Lederman, can fairly serve those he works for: the Party, Summit Carbon Solutions, and a foreign county. . . .
links to SK Holdings fines and court information: https://www.contractormisconduct.org/misconduct/3294/fraudulent-scheme-to-obtain-u-s-army-construction-contracts
Well jeepers. Maybe Birk feels a little friendly competition with the South Dakota Republican Party Chair is getting behind this project.
In South Dakota, this issue seems to be playing out a bit differently than Birk's pipedream, as Cory Allen Heidelberger notes in the Dakota Free Press post, Note to Landowners Threatened by Republican CO2 Pipeline: Democrats Support County Control of Planning & Zoning, Oppose Eminent Domain for CO2 Ventures:
After SDGOP chairman Dan Lederman failed to stop the Republican-controlled Brown County Commission from passing a moratorium against carbon dioxide pipelines like the one Lederman’s rich Republican friends want to build across eastern South Dakota, those Republican friends responded with decidedly un-Republican grumpiness toward local control...
What? Don’t tell me Republicans are all about local control until local control gets in the way of their profits. . . .
We recommend readers check out "Objection, Docket Number HLP-2021-0001," Filed with the Iowa Utilities Board on July 5, 2022 H/t Pipeline Fighters Hub, a project of Bold Alliance.
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Map: The Summit Carbon Solutions proposed ethanol carbon capture pipeline.
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