With three separate projects in the works, thousands of miles of carbon capture pipeline are planned across Iowa. As maps of these pipelines come into focus, landowners are resistant to allowing pipeline companies to survey their private property, a first step to seizing easement rights through eminent domain.
Summit Carbon Solutions envisions building the Midwest Carbon Express, a 2,000-mile web of pipelines in five states: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. The project would pull carbon from more than 30 ethanol plants, liquify it, and send it to North Dakota where it would be buried in the rock about a mile underground, where it would stay permanently.
