Impacts of Summit Pipeline Permit Denial in North Dakota in Iowa Unknown

Summit Carbon Solutions, which wants to build underground carbon capture pipelines in Chickasaw, Floyd, Mitchell, Franklin, and Cerro Gordo counties, suffered a setback in their proposed plans on Friday. 

The North Dakota Public Service Commission denied a Summit permit request as part of its plan to build about 320 miles of carbon pipeline in the state that would take the CO2 to be sequestered in its final destination near Bismarck, the state capital.

During their regular Board meeting Monday, Floyd County Supervisor Chair Mark Kuhn read an opinion from Tim Whipple with Ahlers and Cooney PC how that decision impacts Summit’s permit application in Iowa.

Whipple represents Floyd County and a handful of other counties, including recently added Franklin County, in efforts to intervene in the application process. Kuhn says the next step for intervention is the Iowa Utilities Board public hearing on Summit’s permit application starting August 22nd in Fort Dodge.

Kuhn noted that intervention is also being sought by the Charles City Area Economic Development Corporation and the City of Rockford, which contends Summit’s proposed pipeline route comes too close to the Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock School District.