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The Iowa-based company Summit Carbon Solutions is planning to build a pipeline to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in five states to underground storage sites in Western North Dakota. As Summit Carbon Solutions has gathered the needed permits in North Dakota, landowner resistance has created hearings this week in the North Dakota Legislature to cover topics like eminent domain, common carrier status and liability in the case of a pipeline rupture.
If eminent domain is granted to Summit Carbon Solutions, it would give them the legal right to construction on the respective landowner’s property. The landowner would be paid if a court allows eminent domain. Bills introduced into the Legislature propose a change to when eminent domain can be used.
House Bill 1414 defines that the state may not use eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipelines and revokes common carrier status for carbon pipelines.
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