MASON CITY — The Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors this morning received an update on the efforts of Summit Carbon Solutions to construct a 2500-mile network of pipeline in five states designed to capture carbon dioxide emissions from ethanol plants, transporting it to North Dakota for permanent underground storage.
Summit contractor Kaylee Langrell says emergency response preparedness is a key issue for them. She says their company will do emergency response trainings at least once if not twice a year, and they’ll be providing grants to counties to help with emergency response. “We’re doing a $50,000 base grant per county with $1000 per mile of pipeline in addition to that. We have 28.4 miles (in Cerro Gordo County), so you are looking at an additional about $28,000 to that.”
Langrell says about 83% of the pipeline miles in Cerro Gordo County have been voluntarily acquired and they’ll be continuing to work with land owners on acquiring the rest. “Another thing that was required in our state permit was that we go back to all of the land owners that have not signed yet with the last best offer, so that’s still something we have to do. We’ll go back and continue to work with them up to the time of construction.”
Langrell says they hope to start construction in 2026 with the pipeline being operational in 2027.
