Summit Carbon Solutions Secures Sequestration Permits from North Dakota Industrial Commission
Major Milestone in Advancing the Critical Infrastructure Project
Ames, Iowa [December 12, 2024] –Summit Carbon Solutions announced today that it has received three Class VI sequestration permits from the North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC), marking a critical step forward in the Midwest Carbon Express project. These permits authorize the safe and permanent storage of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in North Dakota’s deep saline geologic formations, further establishing the state as a leader in carbon capture and storage (CCS) innovation.
“These sequestration permits are the result of years of rigorous scientific study, engineering design, and input from regulators, landowners, and local leaders,” said Wade Boeshans, Executive VP of Summit Carbon Solutions. “This milestone underscores North Dakota’s leadership in advancing CCS technology and highlights how infrastructure projects like ours can drive economic growth while enabling energy innovation. With these permits, we’re one step closer to providing vital infrastructure that benefits farmers, ethanol producers, and communities across the Midwest.”
The permits allow Summit Carbon Solutions to permanently store more than 350 million metric tons of CO₂ in geologic formations more than a mile underground. This process ensures long-term safety while decarbonizing 57 ethanol plants across five states. Combined with the project’s pipeline infrastructure, the sequestration sites in North Dakota will enable farmers and ethanol producers to access new markets for low-carbon fuels, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and green fuels, while supporting the broader goals of energy and economic sustainability.
With today’s approval of both the sequestration permits and the Minnesota pipeline permit, along with recent major milestones including the North Dakota pipeline permit and the Iowa permit, Summit Carbon Solutions is making significant progress toward project completion. With the South Dakota PUC application also submitted, Summit Carbon Solutions is on track to begin construction in early 2026 and operations in 2027.
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.
Which means you are not a common carrier….good job!
if compressed CO2 is collected from 57 different ethanol plants, and delivers it to three different sequestration sites, doesn’t that mean it IS a common carrier?
They already signed common carrier contracts. It’s inevitable. The clown you responded to doesn’t understand how common carrier works.
Of course he doesn’t understand, he is part of the Lems/Auch cartel.
So, the next Secretary of the Interior voted in favor of the CO2 pipeline. Interesting, very interesting!
Anti-pipelines taking another L. Maybe if they were able to read they could see the writing on the wall that sequestration is coming no matter what they thought.
The worst possible result is becoming likely:
Landowners don’t get the protections and local government entities don’t get the tax revenue included in the Referendum AND
The federal government federalizes pipelines under the Interstate Commerce Clause of the US Constitution.
We know who to thank for loss of revenue to counties, loss of payments to land owners and other benefits.
Here ya go. Their email addresses will be on the website. Make sure you send them a big kiss and a thank youi.
Auch,
Alyward
Baumuller
Emery
Hansen
Jensen, Phil
Kaar
Ladner
Lems
May
Moore
Mulally
Odenbach
Overweg
Pourier
Randolph
Schaefbauer
Sjaarda
Soye.
242,459 people voted no
Easier to mention Shepards that lead sheep off of the cliff than the sheep.
You must be referring to the 3 that ran the bill and their team off a cliff
No. 201 dared to be proactive, moderate in its approach, and balanced between interested parties.
The anti-pipeliners are blockheads that epitomized how scientific and economic illiteracy spawn fear of the new. They championed the methodology of “telling a big lie told often erases the truth” to shoot 201 down.
I think you’re missing a few names. Where’s Novstrup & Perry? Both were strongly opposed to SB201 & happy that RL21 didn’t pass.
I stayed with the House. They did more pontificating.