The Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline and its proposed expansion would run through western Iowa. Neighbors met in Holstein for one of the final meetings Summit is required to hold before it can talk to landowners about the second phase of its carbon capture pipeline project.
- Carbon capture takes carbon dioxide, a byproduct from ethanol production, cools it, pipes it to a spot where it’s buried underground. The idea: reduce the carbon footprint of corn ethanol allowing it to be sold for products such as sustainable aviation fuel.
- Jolene Riessen is the Chair of Iowa Corn Growers Association. The pipeline would go through her farm. “When our customers are asking for low carbon fuel, we kinda like, have to deliver,” she said.
- State Rep. Steve Holt wants Summit to get voluntary participation from landowners, not use eminent domain, which he believes would violate the state constitution. “This is not a public use project. It’s a private economic development project,” he said.
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