The decision by the Minnesota PUC follows the approval of Summit Carbon Solutions鈥� pipeline permits in Iowa and North Dakota. The company recently refiled its South Dakota permit application.
Green methanol could provide a cleaner, more profitable way to reduce carbon emissions and create new opportunities for the ethanol industry鈥攚ithout the need for expensive, controversial pipelines.
The court on Thursday issued a ruling that Summit Carbon Solutions is not a common carrier and therefore cannot use eminent domain to survey land in South Dakota.
A public hearing on Tuesday, Aug. 20, brought out about 60 concerned citizens, mostly those in opposition to the Summit pipeline project between Otter Tail and Wilkin counties in Minnesota.
The "Landowner Bill of Rights" legislation will now be on the Nov. 5 ballot for a statewide vote and could determine the fate of Summit Carbon Solution's pipeline project.
Panels at the North Dakota Farmers Union Evolution Ag Summit largely came back to what practices to reduce carbon emissions cost to farmers and what their implementation should be worth.
Navigator CO2 Ventures, which has faced setbacks on permitting, announced Friday, Oct. 20, that it would scrap its project to collect carbon emissions from ethanol plants in five states.
The Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to limit the environmental impact statement for the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline to Otter Tail and Wilkin counties
