Iowa regulators have approved a controversial carbon dioxide pipeline for transporting emissions of the greenhouse gas for storage underground. [CutID: <Cuts> DIOXIDE-PIPELINE-house-q-WEDam.mp3 Time: 22s Title: DIOXIDE-PIPELINE-house-q-WEDam Out-cue: around the Midwest] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Farmers and the ethanol industry see the pipeline as a way to support new aviation fuel markets. Many landowners are […]
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Midwestern carbon dioxide pipeline project gets approval in Iowa
Iowa regulators have approved a controversial carbon dioxide pipeline for transporting emissions of the greenhouse gas for storage underground.
[CutID: <Cuts> DIOXIDE-PIPELINE-house-q-WEDam.mp3
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Title: DIOXIDE-PIPELINE-house-q-WEDam
Out-cue: around the Midwest]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Farmers and the ethanol industry see the pipeline as a way to support new aviation fuel markets. Many landowners are opposed because they fear the taking of their land or a pipeline rupture releasing dangerous CO2 gas.
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VERBATIM: Regulators have approved Summit Carbon Solutions’ application for a permit to build and operate its pipeline. The $5.5 billion, 2,500-mile pipeline network would carry CO2 emissions from dozens of ethanol plants to be buried deep underground in North Dakota. But the project faces setbacks in other states and landowners around the Midwest.