North Dakota Blocks Major Proposed Pipeline

North Dakota officials on Aug. 4 voted to block a proposed pipeline, finding in favor of landowners and others who oppose the project.

A photo taken on June 21, 2021 in Oygarden near Bergen, Norway, shows cranes and vehicles at a construction site at the start of construction work for a terminal which will collect liquefied carbon dioxide CO2, which will arrive by ship from industrial facilities in Europe and will run through a pipeline into geological formations deep beneath the sea bed, Alexiane Lerouge/AFP via Getty Images

North Dakota officials on Aug. 4 voted to block a proposed pipeline, finding in favor of landowners and others who oppose the project.

Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS) is seeking to build about 320 miles of carbon dioxide pipeline in the state, funneling ethanol plant greenhouse gases to an underground storage site.