CARBON CAPTURE

Minnesota

Minnesota group files appeal on Summit Carbon pipeline environmental review

Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions says its $4.5 billion pipeline project will help ethanol plants, including the Green Plains Ethanol plant at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, lower their carbon scores.

News

Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to require environmental impact statement on Summit Carbon pipeline

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission met on Jan. 5, 2023, to consider the application for Summit Carbon Solutions.

January 05, 2023 04:57 PM

A farmer in a checkered shirt stands with his back to a healthy corn field, flanked by an ethanol plant in the background.

Business

South Dakota farmers don't see Summit carbon dioxide pipeline as a public utility worthy of eminent domain

A group of farmers near Leola, South Dakota, and Aberdeen, South Dakota, say they are ethanol supporters but that the proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline will cause them far more than what the company is paying for easements. They also say the lurking threat of eminent domain is inappropriate because the pipeline is not for a public utility. They think the long-term strategy of installing a pipeline to satisfy what may be of environmentally uncertain value is wrong, substituting their loss for likely a temporary gain for ethanol and pipeline investors.

August 29, 2022 05:30 AM

Columns

LaDuke: CO2 pipelines are another bad idea

"The easiest way to stop the carbon buildup is to quit burning fossil fuels, move to efficiency, green building and renewables. ... Instead of the common sense approach, there’s an even more crazy idea now, an awfully expensive set of experimental technologies .."

June 01, 2022 10:58 AM

Latest Headlines

Minnesota

Minnesota agency asserts authority over carbon capture pipelines

The decision means carbon pipeline companies must file for a siting permit with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. Without statewide authority, permitting would have been left up to individual counties along the pipeline route.

May 20, 2022 02:03 PM

By Jeff Beach

Minnesota

Summit Carbon Solutions equity campaign for 5-state carbon capture project reaches $1 billion in commitments

Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing to build the world's largest carbon capture and sequestration project. Ethanol plants in Atwater and Granite Falls, Minnesota, are part of the project.

May 12, 2022 04:29 PM

By Forum News Service

Portrait of PegFurshong, Clean Up the River Environment operations and director of programs

Minnesota

Environmental group urges west-central Minnesota counties to take hard look at proposed carbon pipeline

The Montevideo-based nonprofit Clean Up the River Environment told the Yellow Medicine County Board of Commissioners its concerns about risks associated with what would be a first-of-its-kind project by Summit Carbon Solutions. The $4.5 billion project would build a five-state, 2,000-mile pipeline network — with about 200 miles in Minnesota — to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants for sequestration in North Dakota.

May 12, 2022 04:21 PM

By Tom Cherveny

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Minnesota

Summit Carbon Solutions says drain tile is main landowner concern raised as company hosts Minnesota meetings

Summit Carbon Solutions has hosted six open house meetings in Minnesota for landowners along the proposed route of a pipeline to carry carbon dioxide. The No. 1 message from those meetings has been concern about drain tiles, company officials told the Yellow Medicine County Board of Commissioners.

April 28, 2022 04:43 PM

By Tom Cherveny

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to China at Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.

National

Midwest carbon pipeline's backers have close ties to Iowa government

The links between Summit's leadership and public officials in Iowa, which would host the largest share of Summit's proposed Midwest Carbon Express project, have raised worries among ethics watchdogs and environmental groups.

April 25, 2022 09:31 AM

By Leah Douglas / Reuters

Todd McMichael standing along the Sheyenne River in wooded pasture.

News

Counties taking action against eminent domain for carbon capture pipeline

Some North Dakota counties have passed resolutions against using eminent domain for right-of-way for a carbon capture pipeline. Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions is behind a $4.5 billion project that covers five states.

April 18, 2022 05:30 AM

By Jeff Beach

News

Carbon capture pipeline meeting set in Casselton

Tharaldson Ethanol at Casselton, North Dakota, is one of 31 ethanol plants that would connect to a planned carbon capture pipeline. Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions is behind the $4.5 billion project.

April 05, 2022 01:31 PM

By Jeff Beach

An ethanol plant with its giant corn silos next to a cornfield

National

Ethanol industry banks on carbon capture to solve emissions problem

The nascent CCS industry has been plagued by high costs and underperformance, crucial federal incentives for carbon capture are stalled in Congress, and public opposition to the pipeline infrastructure needed to transport captured gas is mounting.

March 11, 2022 07:31 AM

By Leah Douglas / Reuters

A wind farm shares space with farmland the day before the Iowa caucuses, where agriculture and clean energy are key issues, in Latimer, Iowa

National

Filings: Midwest carbon pipeline, with a terminal in North Dakota, has secured less than 2% of key Iowa route

The discrepancy raises questions about Summit’s progress in securing a route for the $4.5 billion project, dubbed the Midwest Carbon Express, which would transport carbon dioxide siphoned from ethanol processing facilities in five Midwestern states to North Dakota for underground storage.

March 08, 2022 07:31 AM

By Leah Douglas / Reuters