Navigator CO2 said it canceled its 1,350-mile carbon pipeline because of “unpredictable … regulatory and government processes” in the five Midwestern states the pipeline would cross. The Heartland Greenway pipeline was among three projects proposed to capture carbon dioxide, mainly from ethanol plants, and transport it through pipelines for injection thousands of feet underground.
Based in Omaha, Navigator pointed to the “challenging” reception given to the project. “Given the unpredictable nature of the regulatory and government processes involved, particularly in South Dakota and Iowa, the company has decided to cancel its pipeline project,” it said on Friday. Land owners have objected to possible use of eminent domain to secure a pathway for the pipeline.
Summit Carbon Solutions, which has another of the proposed pipelines, said last week that its pipeline would become operational in 2026, two years later than expected because of regulatory delays, reported South Dakota Public Broadcasting.
More than half of Navigator’s pipeline would have been in Iowa. The pipeline also would been constructed in Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota.
Summit plans 2,000 miles of pipeline in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota to collect carbon dioxide — for injection in North Dakota — from customers that include 31 ethanol refineries. Wolf Carbon Solutions has said it would build a 350-mile pipeline to capture carbon dioxide at ADM plants in Iowa for storage underground in east-central Illinois.