On Oct. 18 the brand new CEO of Summit Carbon Options, Lee Clean wrote a letter to the editor in The Bismarck Tribune. I want to touch upon a few of these feedback.
Lee states that the 32 ethanol crops want this challenge to decrease their carbon depth and promote there ethanol at a premium. Of those crops just one resides in North Dakota, Tharaldson Ethanol in Casselton. The most important marketplace for low carbon fuels is California, the Canadian market is comparatively small. The California LCFS gas credit score has additionally diminished significantly; the worth of the LCFS credit score was 199.00 on 1-28-2021 to 64.00 on 10-31-2022.
Many people want to know what number of easements Summit has signed in ND not the variety of landowners. If Summit was keen to handle issues, then give us the Plume research we have now been asking for over a yr. The Plume examine will inform us the focus of the CO2 and how briskly it is going to dissipate.
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Summit continues to inform us about all of the taxes communities will see from this challenge, but ND Century code offers a CO2 pipeline a 10-year tax abatement, NDCC 57-06-17.1. The residents in these counties is not going to see a dime from Summit for 10 years.
This challenge is 100% about our federal tax {dollars} and never for the advantage of North Dakota. Summit will make 1,530,000,000.00 yearly (18M x 85.00) from the 85.00 45Q tax credit score. Additionally bear in mind none of this CO2 could also be extracted for using enhanced oil restoration. The LCFS states that the CO2 should be sequestered eternally and the 85.00 45Q fee should even be sequestered. At the moment all of the CO2 coming from the 32 ethanol crops is being supposed for LCFS which implies it is going to by no means be extracted for Enhanced Oil Restoration.
Todd McMichael, Casselton