“Summit Carbon Solutions has in recent weeks been filing “Exhibit H” updates to the Iowa Utilities Commission, which document the company’s attempts to secure voluntary easements from landowners for its proposed multi-state carbon dioxide pipeline,” the Pipeline Fighters Hub reports. “The maps, which are color-coded “red” on parcels where landowners have refused to sign easements, show that a majority of landowners are refusing Summit’s offers in many of the counties along the “Phase 2” route of Summit’s proposed project. The maps show bright red blocks filling much of the company’s would-be pipeline route in Adams County, Clay County, Bremer County, Buena Vista County, Butler County, Greene County, Guthrie County, Hancock County, Kossuth County, Montgomery County, Webster County, and Worth County, among others. Should the company receive an additional permit from the Iowa Utilities Commission, all of the landowners depicted by red-colored parcels on all the county maps would be subject to eminent domain seizure of their land against their will for the proposed pipeline.” (fb)

“A coalition of groups opposing a multi-state carbon dioxide pipeline celebrated the removal of controversial language from the budget reconciliation bill passed Thursday by the U.S. House,” South Dakota Searchlight reports. “Last week, the groups raised alarms about a provision they said would have allowed federal regulators to approve natural gas and carbon dioxide pipelines over prohibitions in state law. South Dakota passed a law earlier this year that bans the use of eminent domain for carbon pipelines… “Chase Jensen, a senior organizer for Dakota Rural Action in South Dakota, was among the activists who called for the provision’s removal. “Within days of being introduced, Congress heard loud and clear that seizing federal siting authority for oil and CO2 pipelines was a nonstarter all across the nation,” Jensen said in a news release. The groups are also calling for the repeal of a federal tax credit for carbon sequestration, but have not succeeded in getting that repeal inserted in the legislation. And they remain opposed to a “fast-track” provision in the bill that they say would allow potential gas pipeline operators to pay a fee of $10 million for expedited federal environmental reviews within a year’s time.” (fb)