The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) recently ruled against Summit Carbon Solutions for its newly proposed informational meeting dates.

According to the IUB, they voted 2-1 to deny Summit its 23 informational meetings that the company had proposed to hold in the 23 counties where they want to expand the underground pipeline project, including Greene and Guthrie Counties. The Board asked Summit to re-submit the meetings with alternative dates and times, and they recommended to Summit to not allow those meetings to go earlier than this June. The original dates that were proposed started April 22nd and went through May 9th. 

The new routes would connect to the existing pipeline, due to adding Valero Renewables and POET Biorefining. Summit filed the proposal on March 11th and the IUB had ten days to respond, which they did on March 14th.

The pipeline would carry liquid carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in the Midwest to an underground storage facility in North Dakota. Summit Carbon Solutions has filed individual permits for the new routes. The original permit that the company submitted is still being considered by the IUB.