Earlier this month Bluestem posted ND Public Service Commission denies Summit Carbon Solutions permit for ethanol carbon pipeline.
The ethanol carbon pipeline company is trying again.
Multiple news sources are reporting that Summit Carbon Solutions has asked North Dakota to reconsider pipeline route denial. The company's press release announcing the new permit application can be read here.
For the Forum Communications chain, Jeff Beach reports in Summit Carbon Solutions asks North Dakota to reconsider pipeline route denial, seeks new path around Bismarck:
After having its carbon pipeline route permit rejected by North Dakota regulators, Summit Carbon Solutions is asking them to reconsider.
Included in Summit’s Petition for Reconsideration is an alternate route around Bismarck, farther east and north of the city.
The Public Service Commission on Aug. 4 denied Summit’s application for a route through the state, the last leg of a 2,000 mile, five-state pipeline project to capture greenhouse gas emissions from ethanol plants.
The PSC had asked for an analysis of a route south of Bismarck to get an underground storage site west of Bismarck.
In its petition, Summit is asking the PSC for a one-day rehearing “for the limited purpose of presenting witness testimony in support of this petition.”
In a news release, Summit say its petition also addresses these issues:
- Avoidance areas: Summit has rerouted or planned drills to avoid areas of concern, including game management areas and areas that may present a geological risk, such as a landslide.
- Cultural resource surveys: Summit is working with the State Historic Preservation Office to document the results of cultural surveys and is confident no historic or archeological sites will be affected by the project. Summit says it has completed cultural surveys on approximately 90% of the pipeline route.
Summit says the project will benefit the ethanol plants and corn growers, but some landowners have been resistant to provide a voluntary easement for the project.
Summit says nearly 80% of the right-of-way for the pipeline route has been secured through voluntary easements from landowners, including parts of the new pipeline route. . . .Summit will begin a permit hearing in Iowa on Aug. 22, and in South Dakota later this year. It has begun the permit process on part of its route in Minnesota. There is no state agency with permitting authority in Nebraska.
An opposition group in Minnesota, CURE (Clean Up the River Environment) has formally petitioned the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to halt its review of the Summit CO2 pipeline in Otter Tail and Wilkin counties. That section would connect the Green Plains ethanol plant at Fergus Falls to a branch of the pipeline in North Dakota.
“North Dakota’s denial sends a clear message to the other states’ regulators reviewing this project — it is not ready for prime time and poses significant threats to the environment and human health that cannot be mitigated,” Sarah Mooradian, CURE’s government relations and policy director, said in a news release. “Continuing the permitting process here in Minnesota for Summit’s half-baked plan would be illogical and irresponsible. . . .
Read the entire article at most Forum Communications paper.
Summit Carbon Solutions has also been in the news in Iowa. Earlier this week, Bluestem republished one news account from Iowa Capital Dispatch, Iowa administrative judge: Summit should reveal communities threatened by pipeline leaks.
Also at the Dispatch: Summit says it wants to withhold safety report to protect public safety and IUB orders Summit to turn over financial details of pipeline.
They seem nice.
Here's the petition, obtained at the North Dakota Public Service ,Commission website:
PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION, NOTICE OF ROUTE ADJUSTMENT AND REQUEST FOR LIMITED REHEARING uploaded by Sally Jo Sorensen on Scribd
Photo: A carbon dioxide pipeline break in 2020 in Mississippi sickened dozens. (Photo courtesy of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration via Iowa Capital Dispatch).
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