The Iowa Utilities Board has set Monday, Oct. 4, as the date for a public information meeting on a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline that would run through Greene and many other Iowa counties.
Summit Carbon Solutions of Ames hopes to build a 700-mile, multi-million dollar pipeline to capture carbon from biofuel plants. The company would compress the emissions into a liquid that could be injected for permanent storage into underground rock formations in North Dakota. The company’s stated goal is to decrease carbon emissions in the atmosphere.
The pipeline is not a straight shot, but has spurs from biofuel plants. Counties involved in addition to Greene include Fremont, Mills, Pottawattamie, Shelby, Crawford, Boone, Story, Woodbury, Ida, Webster, Hardin, Plymouth, Cherokee, Wright, Franklin, Sioux, O’Brien, Clay, Palo Alto, Hancock, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Chickasaw, Lyon, Dickinson, Emmet and Kossuth. Public information meetings are being held in each county.
The local meeting will be held at Oct. 4 at 5 pm at Greene County High School.
Summit Carbon Solutions will hold a similar public meeting at the Boone County Historical Society in Boone Oct. 4 at 12 noon.
