What progress is Summit Carbon Solutions' ethanol carbon pipeline making? As readers know, Bluestem isn't a fan.
Just up on October 1, 2024, it's at the #2 position of Heatmap's Risk Index. In The Most At-Risk Projects of the Energy Transition, there's this:
Summit Carbon Solutions is trying to build what would be the largest pipeline designed to carry carbon dioxide in the United States. The project would collect CO2 captured from ethanol plants throughout the five states that it passes through and deliver the liquified greenhouse gas to an injection well in North Dakota where the CO2 would be sequestered underground.
To date, the developer has signed up 57 separate ethanol plants to hook up to the line. Summit says the pipeline will enable ethanol producers to access new, low-carbon fuel markets, including for “sustainable aviation fuel.” But the project faces mounting opposition from a diverse range of stakeholders, including landowners who don’t want it to pass through their property, environmental groups like the Sierra Club who view it as a “false solution” to climate change, and Republican legislators who question the project’s merits on the grounds that climate change is merely a “hypothesis.” Presidential nominee Donald Trump has also said he’d help fight the pipeline if elected.
The fight escalated this summer after the Iowa Utilities Commission granted Summit the right to use eminent domain to build on the properties of unwilling landowners. Now, many of the opposition groups, including a group called Republican Legislative Intervenors for Justice, are suing to reverse the decision. The Iowa Commission also granted Summit a permit to begin construction, but it’s contingent on the company getting permits in North and South Dakota first — both of which rejected the project the first time Summit applied. The company has since altered its route in South Dakota and reapplied, but its fate in that state is also dependent on a measure on the November 5 ballot that would allow state regulators to override local ordinances and zoning laws designed to keep the pipeline out. Meanwhile, the company is also still awaiting approvals in Minnesota and Nebraska, as well as a permit to drill a Class VI CO2 storage well in North Dakota. The process of acquiring permits and easements has taken so long that one of the project’s suppliers, a pipe welding company, has also sued Summit for delaying production. —Emily
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