Summit Carbon Solutions Receives Pipeline Permit from Minnesota PUC
Milestone Achieved for 28-Mile Route in Otter Tail and Wilkin Counties
Ames, Iowa [December 12, 2024] – Summit Carbon Solutions is pleased to announce that the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has granted a permit for the company’s 28-mile pipeline route through Otter Tail and Wilkin Counties. This milestone follows an extensive review process, including a detailed Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which confirmed the project would have minimal negative impacts.
“We thank the Minnesota PUC for their thorough and diligent review of our project,” said Lee Blank, CEO of Summit Carbon Solutions. “This decision underscores the importance of balancing economic opportunities for local communities with environmental stewardship. We remain committed to working collaboratively with landowners and stakeholders to ensure the successful and responsible development of this project.”
The approved pipeline segment is part of Summit Carbon Solutions’ effort to help ethanol producers lower their carbon intensity and access new markets, like sustainable aviation fuel. The project provides much-needed support to farmers while strengthening rural economies and ensuring agriculture’s long-term success in Minnesota and the Midwest.
This decision by the Minnesota PUC follows the approval of Summit Carbon Solutions’ pipeline permits in Iowa and North Dakota, and refiled its South Dakota permit application, marking significant progress for the multi-state project.
About Summit Carbon Solutions:
Summit Carbon Solutions is driving the future of agriculture by expanding economic opportunities for ethanol producers, strengthening the marketplace for Midwest-based farmers, and creating jobs. In developing the largest carbon capture and storage project in the world, the company seeks to connect industrial facilities via strategic infrastructure to store carbon dioxide safely and permanently in the Midwest United States. For more information, visit www.SummitCarbonSolutions.com.
In spite of the anti-s in SD, progress is moving forward.
I am waiting for Lems to put up anti-prison signs next.
You got a permit for 28 miles…..well short of what you really intend to build in the future.
It will be built. That’s why your post is so funny. SD is next up for approval.
Voters who were misinformed about SB201 just took away benefits from landowners.
Thanks Lems, Auch, Odenbach, May, Schaefbauer, Perry, and other anti-everything legislators.
They are opposed to economic development in rural areas AND don’t want to see school districts consolidated.
can somebody explain to them why they can’t have it both ways???
they were too stupid to notice Summit wasn’t spending money on a “vote yes” campaign.
The “carbon bad” myth was created to take money out of the hands of the public thru the government. Take away government benefits and carbon bad movement dies.Carbon bad true believers have been educated about trees but have no idea what a forest is. The rest of you are just crooks.
What’s it like being this dense. It’s the excessive CO2 that natural carbon sinks can’t keep up with that is bad. Here, this should be easy enough for you to understand
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/kids-guide-to-climate-change/