Summit Carbon Solutions has announced a new route for its pipeline, and it bypasses Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The scaled-down version will capture carbon from 27 ethanol plants in Iowa and move it through Nebraska to a storage site in Wyoming. The original project would have impacted nearly 60 ethanol plants in five states, with the carbon sequestration happening in North Dakota. Summit was unable to secure a pipeline permit in South Dakota and faced legal challenges in North Dakota. American Carbon Alliance CEO Tom Buis says the mileage is reduced with the new route, but it should not slow down progress with the pipeline. The market and supply remains. “There’s one thing we always need in agriculture and that’s more demand. Demand is what gets you the price, and we’re sitting here right now with excess supply and not enough demand.”
