Eminent domain, the subject of anti-renewal energy projects and transmission lines in Oklahoma is also the focus of similar movements in upper MidWestern states.
Summit Carbon Solutions, the Ames, Iowa-based firm that wants to build a nearly $9 billion carbon capture pipeline across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota just ran into more opposition over the same topic.
This week, members of a House Committee in South Dakota voted in support of an eminent domain bill intended on shutting out the company from putting the pipeline in the state. Senate Bill 198 would ban carbon capture companies from using eminent domain to take private property for the pipeline.
The Argus Leader reported another bill, HB1052 drew more than 150 people who testified in support of it during a House hearing.
But the South Dakota state senate on Tuesday voted to support the measure and sent it to Gov.Larry Rhoden’s desk in what the Dakota Scout called a “kill shot” for the carbon pipeline effort in the state.
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