Carbon Pipeline Expert Encourages Floyd County, Property Owners to be Proactive
Thus far, neither of the two companies targeting Floyd County to build underground carbon capture pipelines has been approved for construction. However, a pipeline expert advises against waiting for those decisions to come from the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB).
Evan Del Val with ISG, Incorporated, with an office in Waterloo, lobbied the Floyd County Board of Supervisors during their regular meeting Monday to become the County’s pipeline inspector for both projects being proposed by Summit Carbon Solutions and Navigator CO2 Ventures. Del Val, who’s company monitored the building of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, said the County needs to have a voice at the table.
Del Val also had advice for landowners along the proposed pipeline routes, which could total over three dozen miles combined in Floyd County.
Supervisors debated whether they should make a decision on an inspector when the Board will have a new makeup at the start of 2023. Supervisor Linda Tjaden said there was no reason to wait.
No decision on the ISG presentation was made since it was not an action item on Monday’s agenda.
ISG has already been hired by Chickasaw County to monitor Summit’s Midwest Carbon Express pipeline, which would start its easternmost branch with the Homeland Energy Solutions ethanol plant near Lawler and New Hampton and continue west through Floyd and Cerro Gordo counties.
