Keeping the doors unlocked is a common practice on rural farms where farmers often work between the house, barn, and field. But country manners don’t allow strangers to enter buildings unannounced.
That’s what happened on May 3, when land surveyors for Summit Carbon Solutions arrived at the Brown County, South Dakota ranch of Jared and Tara Bossley, and the incident ended up in court.
Summit plans to build a “carbon capture, utilization, and storage” project, the Midwest Carbon Express, a 2,000-mile web of pipelines in five states: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. The project would pull carbon from more than 30 ethanol plants, liquify it, and send it to North Dakota, where it would be buried in rock about a mile underground as part of a green initiative against carbon emissions….