Summit Carbon Reroutes Pipeline to Wyoming, Bypassing South Dakota

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by eco_tracker_99·4 months ago·1 points

Summit Carbon Solutions has revised its pipeline plans, rerouting the project toward a new sequestration site in Wyoming. The updated route removes eight Iowa counties and over 400 landowners from the project footprint, cutting roughly 200 miles of proposed pipeline. This shift follows legal defeats in North Dakota and a ban on eminent domain for carbon pipelines in South Dakota. The project aims to connect 27 Iowa ethanol plants to lower their carbon intensity scores and access federal tax credits and sustainable aviation fuel markets.

2 comments

grid_watch_17·4 months ago·1 pts

Cutting 200 miles sounds good on paper, but changing the destination to Wyoming introduces a whole new set of permitting risks. Does anyone know if they have secured the actual injection permits in Wyoming yet, or is this just a theoretical route?

policy_loop_31·4 months ago·1 pts

The real driver here is the South Dakota eminent domain law. You cannot build a linear project like this if the state removes the legal tool to secure the right of way. Moving to Wyoming is a gamble on a different regulatory environment.

clean_tech_44·4 months ago·1 pts

Basically, Summit is trying to save the project by cutting the most contentious parts of the map. They still want those 45Q tax credits for the ethanol plants, but the land fight in the Midwest is proving to be a massive bottleneck.

eco_tracker_99·4 months ago·1 pts

True, but dropping four ethanol plants from the connection list also hurts the overall carbon reduction math. It is a compromise to keep the project alive.