On January 7, Bluestem posted a News digest: South Dakota and Minnesota PUCs deal with Summit carbon pipeline issues.
Now, regional environmental groups want to talk to area landowners and concerned citizens about "easements, safety, crops, land and environmental impacts and offer farmer viewpoints and more in-depth information."
Citizens Concerned and Montevideo-based rural grassroots environment and clean energy group Clean Up the River Environment (CURE) want to have a talk with landowners or concerned community members in Cottonwood, Jackson, Redwood, Renville, or Yellow Medicine counties.
At the West Central Tribune, we read Environmental groups invite west central Minnesotans to Carbon Pipelines 101 meeting Jan. 23:
Area landowners and residents are invited to a Carbon Pipelines 101 meeting on Monday, Jan. 23, at 6:30 p.m. at American Legion Post #41 in Lamberton.
This event is being organized by Citizens Concerned to discuss the proposed carbon pipeline running through ten Minnesota counties.
Landowners or concerned community members in Cottonwood, Jackson, Redwood, Renville, or Yellow Medicine counties in Minnesota are encouraged to attend, according to a news release from Citizens Concerned and Clean Up the River Environment (CURE).
The meeting will feature speakers on concerns about easements, safety, crops, land and environmental impacts, and offer farmer viewpoints and more in-depth information.
Summit Carbon Solutions has recently filed an application with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for a routing permit on the northern branch in Minnesota. This is 28.5 miles of a proposed hazardous liquid pipeline that will transport liquid CO2 from the Green Plains Ethanol Plant in Fergus Falls to the main trunk in South Dakota through Otter Tail and Wilkin counties.
The total Minnesota footprint is projected to be 234 miles over ten counties (Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Martin, Otter Tail, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine and Wilkin). The entire footprint of the project is just over 2,100 miles located in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota.
The meeting sponsors have concerns about the proposed pipeline and carbon sequestration project.
After decades of development and repeated attempts to get carbon capture off the ground, the technology has never been successful at scale, according to the news release from Citizens Concerned. The group also stated that carbon capture is very energy intensive and that most of the energy comes from fossil fuels.
For more information, visit www.carbonpipelinesmn.org or call CURE at 320-269-2984.
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- Minnesota Public Utility Commission claims regulatory authority for carbon pipelines
- CO2 pipelines could affect the land, lives and livelihoods of South Dakota property owners
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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
Map: from Summit Carbon Solutions, via Argus Leader.
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