North Dakotans again fend off a pipeline: this time CO2
"If we can't smell it or see it, we wouldn't know we need to go," says a longtime North Dakota resident, Sadie Bro. In a day-long hearing in Bismarck at the North Dakota Heritage Center auditorium that is still going on, representatives from business and landowners have met and are meeting to discuss the contentious issue of building a 2,000 miles-long underground pipeline to transport carbon dioxide (CO2) for permanentbstorage just a few miles northeast of Bismarck. Summit Carbon Solutions of Iowa say their pipeline project will help ethanol plants and capture greenhouse gas emissions from 32 plants in five states as it ferries the colorless liquid gas to western North Dakota for underground storage. There is only one ethanol plant in North Dakota. A primary issue is that of eminent domain. The North Dakota Public Service Commission has set four hearings, the first of which was today, to gather public input on a proposed $4.5 billion plan by Summit Carbon Solutions