Dickinson Co. Supervisors Hear Update From Summit Carbon Solutions
Dickinson Co. Supervisors Hear Update From Summit Carbon Solutions
May 10, 2022Steve Schwaller
(Spirit Lake)– Dickinson county supervisors today (Tues.) heard an update from Kylie Kretz, a project manager with Summit Carbon Solutions, which plans to construct a pipeline through Iowa and a portion of Dickinson county that would transport carbon dioxide produced by ethanol plants to an underground storage facility in North Dakota. Kretz says they continue to make progress on getting easements that would be needed for the project…
“I don’t have county by county numbers. We try not to, you know, dig into our land people too much. I know I just got an email, O’Brien, we get emails on different dates, and O’Brien which is right next to you guys surpassed that 50 percent mark, so I received an email. Iowa as a whole, we have more than 25 percent completed and we consider ourselves just getting started with the acquisition process. We’ve got a lot more to go but 25 percent was a big milestone for us and we’re pretty proud of it.”
Kretz was asked if the project would still go forward if they are forced to use eminent domain should they not be able to get the land needed through easements…
“It’s hard for me to speak to that. There is a path for eminent domain. We don’t have it, currently. We aren’t actively submitting for it. We want to and are working with the landowners to get easements, come to an agreement. That’s our ultimate goal. We pushed back construction just to give us more time to work with the landowners and come to agreement. We’ve made tons of route changes. I think we’re coming on 2,000 route changes after talking to landowners to skirt properties, to change how we’re going across drain tiles and things like that. It’s not that we don’t have a path, we’re just trying not to use that at this time. We’ve got a lot of months where we want to make a deal, come to an agreement, that we both can work with with the landowners.”
Several Dickinson county landowners that would be impacted were at today’s (Tues.) meeting expressing concern about that and any potential impacts on drainage.
