A unanimous decision by the North Dakota Public Service Commission has approved the plan of Summit Carbon Solutions' $8 billion pipeline proposal that will carry liquid CO2 from 57 ethanol plants in 5 states to an area northwest of Bismarck, ND and then be injected into the ground. The total length of the pipelines would be about 2500 miles, 333 miles in North Dakota.
Sheri Haugen-Hoffart ndliving.com
Julie Fedorchak kvrr.com
Randy Christmann fortnightly.com
The above three are the North Dakota Public Service Commissioners who unanimously approved the Summit Carbon Solutions plan.
There are many questions about the construction of the pipeline complex. First of all, no one has built a liquid CO2 pipeline of this magnitude before, including Summit Carbon Solutions. No one knows if it will actually function as proposed. One of the biggest questions is using the power of eminent domain to acquire the right to cross through private property, which can't be used for the benefit of private entities.
But the primary question, the one that dominates the entire concept is: Will the incredibly expensive project meant to arrest accumulation of CO2 into the atmosphere actually have any effect on climate change? Nobody knows about that for sure, either.
Tom Cherveny / West Central Tribune file photo
CChris Hill, Summit Carbon Solutions
Once again, we're seeing Whigism at a greater extent than in even the wildest times of the robber barons. Tax pay-offs and subsidies will be distributed from government agencies to their accomplices in the board rooms of complicit corporations.
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