IUB Sets Summit Pipeline Informational Meetings in Floyd, Mitchell Counties

The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB)has set a pair of public informational meetings in north Iowa for a possible addition to Summit Carbon Solutions underground carbon capture pipeline network.

Summit is already looking at a branch of its Midwest Carbon Express pipeline to start with the Homeland Energy Solutions ethanol plant, between Lawler and New Hampton, and build west through Chickasaw, Floyd and Cerro Gordo counties among others. Summit recently announced the addition of the Absolute Energy ethanol plant, near St. Ansgar, to its network and is seeking another 30 miles of pipe to connect that facility to its current proposed pipeline in Floyd County, hooking up near Rockford.

While Summit is nearing the end of its permit process with the IUB for its original pipeline proposal, the company will seek a second permit for the additional pipeline, since modifying its existing request would likely delay the permit proceedings. 

The IUB has now set times for informational meetings for landowners in both Floyd and Mitchell counties on Tuesday, August 8th. In Mitchell County, reps from Summit and the IUB will be available from noon to 3 pm at the Cedar River Complex Events Center in Osage. That will be followed by a session that evening from 6 to 9 pm at the Youth Enrichment Center on the Floyd County Fairgrounds, just west of Charles City.

Summit was recently successful in expediting its current permit process when the IUB set a final evidentiary hearing for the original permit from 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday, August 22nd at the Cardiff Event Center at Fort Frenzy in Fort Dodge.