Iowa
Iowa landowner and carbon pipeline developer battle over property access
(Reuters) – An Iowa landowner is countersuing a carbon pipeline developer after it sued him and different residents to realize entry to their properties for surveying. The household says the Iowa legislation that enables entry to personal property for the needs of power improvement quantities to an unlawful taking and desires an injunction barring the corporate from getting into.
Navigator CO2 Ventures, a partnership between Valero Power Corp and BlackRock, is proposing the Heartland Greenway, a 1,300-mile community of pipelines that will join biofuel producers within the Midwest to an underground storage facility in central Illinois the place an anticipated 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide might be sequestered annually, in response to the corporate.
The majority of the pipeline system would cross Iowa, the place the corporate is drafting an in depth route proposal as required by the Iowa Utilities Board earlier than approvals are granted. As part of that scoping, Navigator has sought to make use of an Iowa statute that enables hazardous liquid pipeline and storage corporations to survey and study personal property supplied the landowners are given 10 days’ written discover and after an informational assembly.
Navigator sued Martin Koenig and three different landowners in August saying they’d violated the statute by refusing the corporate entry to their land.
The pipeline would facilitate carbon seize and storage (CCS), a course of that has been touted by business and a few authorities officers as a approach to assist the biofuel business scale back emissions amid calls to transition in the direction of clear power.
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Heartland Greenway is considered one of three carbon pipeline programs proposed for the state which have obtained pushback from landowners and conservation teams that say CCS is a largely untested expertise, and that the pressurized pipelines that transport liquefied CO2 current well being risks for close by communities. The pipelines want a number of state and federal approvals, and a few Iowa lawmakers have expressed considerations about extending eminent area rights to the tasks.
“This combat is for the truthful remedy of landowners,” mentioned Brian Jorde, an legal professional at Domina Legislation Group who represents Koenig and different landowners preventing Navigator’s pipeline.
Navigator didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The case is Navigator Heartland Greenway v. Martin P. Koenig, Iowa District Court docket for Clay County, case No. EQCV034863.
For Navigator: Brian Rickert, James Pray, Caitlin Stachon, Thomas Story and Jackson O’Brien of Brown Winick Graves Gross and Baskerville
For the landowner: Brian Jorde and Christian Williams of Domina Legislation Group
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Unclaimed Central Iowa Veterans Get a Final Salute from Hundreds of People
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) – Twenty Veterans and 5 spouses who died in Iowa have been buried at Iowa Veterans Cemetery, their final resting place, KCCI’s Ben Kaplan reported. This salute was decades in the making because these veterans had been forgotten. Their cremated bodies hadn’t been claimed.
The Final Salute had spend the last few years giving sendoffs to forgotten veterans. This past Friday was the group’s largest yet. Hundreds of people went to the West Des Moines Church and the Iowa Veterans Ceremony to say goodbye.
“This kind of tugs at my heartstrings that these veterans were left on the shelf, and I feel they deserve to be laid to a final resting place, and I wanted to be part of it,” KCCI heard from one attendee.
“I’m just very grateful to be here and be part of this,” another attendee told KCCI.
A World War II veteran was also there to honor the veterans.
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Possible East Coast port strike will increase costs in Iowa
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – An East Coast port strike could be just days away, and that could mean spending even more at the grocery store and for other goods here in Iowa.
Workers at the ports along the East Coast are set to strike October 1st.
Around 45,000 dock workers on the East Coast are likely to go on strike for the first time since 1977.
But according to supply chain experts here in Iowa, even if the strike doesn’t end up happening, the damage is already done.
“Apple watch, they’d usually use a port maybe in New England to serve that market, they’ve already diverted their shipments,” said Dr. Andy Anderson, UNI supply chain management professor.
In anticipation of a possible strike, ships on the sea right now are going to the West Coast instead of the East coast.
That means a lot of ships need to take a long detour, which could pose a big risk for any perishables being shipped.
“So what we saw in 2015 with the [West Coast] port strikes is that we saw a lot of things just rotting in their containers because there were so many delays,” Anderson said.
Another factor is that ports on the west coast will be handling ships that normally go to the east coast, which could lead to a big traffic jam for ships on the East Coast.
“West Coast cannot handle the entirety of all these five major East Coast ports, the volume,” said Jade Chu, UNI supply chain management professor.
Delays for perishable products mean trips to the grocery store will be more expensive.
Plus, with the holidays coming up, lots of goods that would be shipped in time for holiday shopping are now potentially being delayed.
“So something that’s small and high in value like an iPhone probably isn’t going to be impacted that much, but if you have something that is much larger and lower value, then you’re going to see a big impact,” Anderson said.
While he still expects shelves to be stocked here in Iowa, delays and some scarcity mean higher costs.
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