Public meetings are scheduled in 23 counties for review of the Summit Carbon Solutions plan to expand its proposed pipeline to more ethanol plants.
State regulators have already granted Summit approval to build along its original 688 mile route through the state — if regulators in neighboring states approve the pipeline’s route outside of Iowa. The Iowa Capital Dispatch was first to report public hearings are now scheduled in 23 Iowa counties to discuss extending the pipeline another 340 miles. The expansion represents Summit’s agreements with ethanol plants that had been linked to the abandoned Navigator C-O-2 pipeline project. Iowa has 42 ethanol plants and Summit’s pipeline would collect carbon from 30 of them for underground storage in North Dakota.
In the local area meetings have been scheduled in several locations:
– Aug. 29th at 6 p.m. in Hardin County: Albright’s Bluff, 119 Main St., Iowa Falls
– Sept. 11th at noon in Butler County: Greene Community Center, large room, 202 W. South St., Greene
– Sept. 11th at 6 p.m. in Floyd County: Swartzrock Community Center, Floyd County Fairgrounds, 2516 Seven Mile Road, Charles City
– Sept. 13th at noon in Hancock County: Viaduct Center, 255 U.S. Highway 69, Garner
