Getting back to our coverage of plans to run pipelines carrying CO2 from ethanol refineries across the midwest, Bluestem was struck by a headline in Tuesday's morning's Des Moines Register, Carbon capture pipeline opponents want permits paused until new safety regulations are done.
Donelle Eller reports for the Register:
Opponents of three carbon capture pipelines proposed in Iowa and surrounding states want federal regulators to call for a moratorium on construction, saying current safeguards are inadequate to protect people who live near the projects.
About three dozen environmental, public health and tribal groups on Monday asked the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to call for a delay in action on state carbon capture pipeline permits until the agency establishes new safety guidelines.
There was no immediate response from the agency. It said in May it would seek new rules for carbon dioxide pipelines after a pipeline ruptured in Satartia, Mississippi, in February 2020, sending 45 people to the hospital. . . .
Read the rest at the Register. While the companies hoping to build the pipelines say they're safe, many Iowans have voiced their concerns about safety and property.
Iowans are not alone. Here in South Dakota, Dakota Rural Action dares call it "greenwashing," and Montevideo's rural-based CURE hosts Carbon Pipelines MN.
Check out both organization's pages about the projects and the process.
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- Minnesota Public Utility Commission claims regulatory authority for carbon pipelines
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- SD News Watch: Proposed CO2 pipelines thrust SD into billion-dollar climate change debate
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- Coming soon from a cornfield near you: mammoth carbon capture pipeline system
- Mother Jones: USDA Secretary Vilsack’s son works for a controversial ethanol pipeline project
- Iowa county boards scorn construction of CO2 pipelines, use of eminent domain to build them
- Digest of news about carbon dioxide pipeline
Photo: Steve and Karmin McShane paint a sign in opposition to a CCS pipeline in Linn County, Iowa. Photo by Joseph Cress, Iowa City Press-Citizen, via Dea Moines Register.
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