The Summit carbon pipeline has been called off in Minnesota
I’ve blogged about the proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline before, most recently here. The principals at Summit have seen fit to change their minds about some things.
The Iowa company attempting to build a multi-billion-dollar pipeline to capture and bury carbon dioxide from ethanol plants described a new route (May 13) that does not include South Dakota…
Previously, the company planned to collect carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota, and transport it via pipeline for underground sequestration in North Dakota…
The project was proposed to capitalize on federal tax credits incentivizing the prevention of heat-trapping emissions into the atmosphere. Summit has lately signaled that some of its carbon dioxide could be pumped into oil wells to force more oil to the surface, in a process known as enhanced oil recovery.
(South Dakota Searchlight)
“Enhanced oil recovery.” So much for an outfit that was going to help solve climate change. But we are living in Trump’s America, and I suppose people figure they gotta do what they gotta do to make it through.
As the linked article notes the new route doesn’t include Minnesota or North Dakota either. Things can certainly change again, but for now this is relatively good news. Proposals for carbon sequestration, especially involving plants that make ethanol fuel, as something that will be good for the climate are at this time wishful thinking, grifting scams, or both.
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