BRIMFIELD (25News Now) – More than 200 residents from Elmwood, Hanna City, Kickapoo and surrounding communities gathered at the Brimfield American Legion Sunday night to learn more about a proposed carbon dioxide storage project, and they expressed concerns about potential health and safety risks.
The community-organized meeting focused on a proposal involving Lapis Carbon Solutions and BioUrja Renewables to transport carbon dioxide from BioUrja’s ethanol facility in Peoria to an underground injection well near Texas Road in rural Peoria County.
The companies have outlined two potential transportation options: trucking the carbon dioxide directly to the injection site or transporting it by truck to a separate location before using a short pipeline for the final stretch…