The Bremer County Board of Supervisors met with representatives from Summit Carbon Solutions on Tuesday regarding Summit’s proposed pipeline, according to the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier. The supervisors allowed the company to explain its vision for the project pending approval of a hazardous liquid permit application with the Iowa Utilities Board. The pipeline would capture carbon dioxide from Poet plants, including those outside Fairbank and Shell Rock, and move it to be permanently stored in North Dakota. The Summit representatives tried to distance themselves from a pipeline rupture in Mississippi that hospitalized 40 people by saying that there was more than just carbon dioxide in that pipeline. They also claimed a lot had been learned from the Dakota Access Pipeline issues. The representatives could not answer if their route would be in compliance with a recent ordinance that requires pipelines to be a certain distance from city limits and structures in rural areas. County Building and Zoning Administrator Lindsey Koehler estimates more than 200 property owners and nearly 250 parcels of land could be affected by the pipeline.
