Midwest landowners fighting the construction of a 2,000-mile web of carbon-capture pipelines are upset to learn that the company seeking easements on their lands is funded by foreign investors, including at least one with a troubling history.
Summit Carbon Solutions aims to build a pipeline through hundreds of farms and other private properties in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.
The pipelines will take carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by more than 30 ethanol plants, liquify it, and send it to North Dakota to be buried in rock about a mile underground.
The Midwest Carbon Express is a 2,000-mile web of carbon-capture pipelines proposed by Summit Carbon Solutions. (Courtesy Summit Carbon Solutions)
It is new technology and not everyone is convinced the plan will be beneficial, especially in the longer term….