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Wolf Carbon Solutions has withdrawn its petition requesting a permit to build a hazardous liquid CO2 pipeline The route would have been from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Illinois.

One of the reasons they withdrew the petition was due to the leak, underground and undetected by continuous monitoring equipment, possibly for 6 months, at the Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) Ethanol facility in Illinois. This same type of sequestering of CO2 is proposed by Summit Carbon Solutions.

Summit will also rely on remote monitoring systems, in Iowa, which failed and went undetected in Illinois, despite continuous monitoring.

These remote monitoring systems are proposed in Mitchell County, 31 miles to Floyd County, the shut off valves being 2 – 20 miles apart, and monitored by computers in Ames, Iowa. Another concern is the plan to cross the Cedar River near 460th Street.

The proposed water taking by Summit has stayed constant at 3.3 Billion gallons every year, that equals 9,041,096 gallons per day from Iowa aquifers. This taking is way above the average family use of up to 100 gallons per day. Summit CS should be asked to pay for every gallon above the average family use. Please ask the DNR to monitor this cost.

Very little has changed in Summit’s original plan and route, despite many landowner concerns being brought up. What has changed is the additional plan to link miles of pipeline near Hwy 9 through Worth County connecting Poet Ethanol Plants. Also noted was the corporate profit Poet has used to build private Airplane Hangars and the large number of private jets Poet owns and flies out of South Dakota.

Do they really need our taxpayer dollars to take water from the public aquifers and take private land?? Eminent Domain should not be allowed. Taxpayer dollars should not be used. South Dakota has again denied the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline. It may be 2 years before the political and legal steps are carried out in South Dakota.

There is no reason to agree to surveys or to sign easements in Iowa. Nothing has changed about the dangers of the Hazardous CO2 pipeline, to the environment or people’s health.

Minnesota requires Summit to provide landowners with CO2 monitors, to anyone within 1000 feet of the pipeline,( because of the health risk) and obtain voluntary landowner agreements (no Eminent Domain in Minnesota) along the entire route before the start of construction and compensate landowners for damage to crops and reduction in yields.

If you want to talk to someone about your concerns about the proposed CO2 pipeline in Mitchell County, contact Iowa CCI at 515-282-0484 or visit www.iowacci.org/pipeline

Debra R. Freeman

St. Ansgar