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Summit pipeline hearing will resume on Tuesday [1]

['Jared Strong', 'More From Author', '- September']

Date: 2023-09

A regulatory hearing for Summit Carbon Solution’s pipeline permit has concluded for the week and will resume on Tuesday.

The Iowa Utilities Board had hoped to finish Summit’s evidentiary hearing by the end of this month, but the cross examination of witnesses has gone longer than it initially anticipated.

Board chairperson Erik Helland and Summit attorney Bret Dublinske have said pipeline opponents have caused the delays.

“This has been a very special-interest and lawyer-driven process,” Dublinske said Wednesday. He added: “There’s no reason this can’t move faster. There’s no reason this couldn’t have moved faster for weeks.”

Summit seeks a permit to build more than 680 miles of pipe in Iowa that would transport captured carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to North Dakota for underground sequestration.

The hearing has gone for six weeks and is meant to examine the evidence submitted by Summit, landowners and others to determine whether the project deserves a permit. The company seeks eminent domain to get land easements for about a quarter of its route in Iowa.

The pace of the hearing has lagged from the start, and two weeks ago the board gave no indication how the hearing would proceed if it didn’t end this week. The board waited until Wednesday to say it had extended its reservation of the hearing venue in Fort Dodge to all of next week, and that it planned to resume on Monday.

But due to the late notice, it will instead resume on Tuesday with affected landowners testifying in-person and remotely via video conferencing. Brian Jorde, an attorney for more than 100 of those landowners, indicated that up to 10 might be available on Tuesday. It was unclear how many have yet to testify.

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