Summit Reaches 80% of Voluntary Easements for Carbon Pipeline
The company proposing to build a carbon capture pipeline in Chickasaw County says they have doubled their voluntary easement agreements with landowners in the last four months.
Summit Carbon Solutions Ben Fuller provided a project update to the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors Monday.
Fuller says Summit will continue to seek voluntary easements in hopes of avoiding the use of eminent domain through the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB).
Fuller added that, statewide, Summit has reached 54% of the voluntary easements totaling over 370 miles along the proposed route for their Midwest Carbon Express pipeline, which would utilize the Homeland Energy Solutions ethanol plant between Lawler and New Hampton for its easternmost starting point.
If the IUB approves Summit’s permit, Fuller says construction could begin late next summer and take four to five months to build the Chickasaw County section of the pipeline.
