North Dakota
Summit Carbon Solutions asks North Dakota to reconsider pipeline route denial, seeks new path around Bismarck
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BISMARCK, N.D. — After having its carbon pipeline route permit rejected by North Dakota regulators, Summit Carbon Solutions is asking them to reconsider.
Included in Summit’s
Petition for Reconsideration
is an alternate route around Bismarck, farther east and north of the city.
The
Public Service Commission on Aug. 4 denied Summit’s application
for a route through the state, the last leg of a 2,000 mile, five-state pipeline project to capture greenhouse gas emissions from ethanol plants.
The PSC had asked for an analysis of a route south of Bismarck to get an underground storage site west of Bismarck.
In its petition, Summit is asking the PSC for a one-day rehearing “for the limited purpose of presenting witness testimony in support of this petition.”
In a news release, Summit say its petition also addresses these issues:
- Avoidance areas: Summit has rerouted or planned drills to avoid areas of concern, including game management areas and areas that may present a geological risk, such as a landslide.
- Cultural resource surveys: Summit is working with the State Historic Preservation Office to document the results of cultural surveys and is confident no historic or archeological sites will be affected by the project. Summit says it has completed cultural surveys on approximately 90% of the pipeline route.
Summit says the project will benefit the ethanol plants and corn growers, but some landowners have been resistant to provide a voluntary easement for the project.
Summit says nearly 80% of the right-of-way for the pipeline route has been secured through voluntary easements from landowners, including parts of the new pipeline route.
Courtesy of Summit Carbon Solutions
“Addressing the concerns of the ND PSC is a top priority for us, and we’ve worked diligently to revise our application accordingly,” Summit Carbon Solutions CEO Lee Blank said in a news release. “Our aim is to work collaboratively, listen to everyone’s input, and align our project with the long-term vision that North Dakota has for its energy and agricultural sectors. We are confident that our efforts will contribute positively to North Dakota’s future, and we’re excited to be part of this journey.”
Summit’s pipeline would connect ethanol plants in five states — Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and one in North Dakota, the Tharaldson Ethanol plant at Casselton.
Mikkel Pates / Agweek file photo
Summit will begin a permit hearing in Iowa on Aug. 22, and in South Dakota later this year. It has begun the permit process on part of its route in Minnesota. There is no state agency with permitting authority in Nebraska.
An opposition group in Minnesota, CURE (Clean Up the River Environment) has
formally petitioned
the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to halt its review of the Summit CO2 pipeline in Otter Tail and Wilkin counties. That section would connect the Green Plains ethanol plant at Fergus Falls to a branch of the pipeline in North Dakota.
“North Dakota’s denial sends a clear message to the other states’ regulators reviewing this project — it is not ready for prime time and poses significant threats to the environment and human health that cannot be mitigated,” Sarah Mooradian, CURE’s government relations and policy director, said in a news release. “Continuing the permitting process here in Minnesota for Summit’s half-baked plan would be illogical and irresponsible.”
Reach Agweek reporter Jeff Beach at jbeach@agweek.com or call 701-451-5651.
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North Dakota
State officials monitoring oil-production spills in northwest North Dakota
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(Bismarck, ND) — State regulators continue to monitor a pair of oil spills reported last week in northwest North Dakota.
Sources with the North Dakota Oil and Gas Division say little under 1,250 barrels of oil were released due to overflow near Johnson’s Corner in McKenzie County on Tuesday.
Contents of the spill reportedly were recovered.
Sometime later, 300 barrels of water tainted during oil and gas-extraction efforts also were released.
Authorities say that spill was cleaned up sometime later.
State inspectors continue to monitor both sites.
North Dakota
New interstate would cut through North Dakota
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(Bismarck, ND) — Plans for a new interstate will bring the highway through the middle of North Dakota.
There’s no timetable for the construction of the proposed I-27 which would run from Texas to Canada.
Funds were allotted for the project by Congress in 2022.
Congressman Kelly Armstrong says giving farmers and energy producers more options to get their products to market will save on transportation costs.
North Dakota
The story of North Dakota's youngest 'vagrants' in 1923
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Stutsman County officials faced an unusual challenge with some young vagrants wandering the area in 1923.
The problem started on a Sunday when residents of the Windsor area brought two boys to Jamestown. The boys, ages 11 and 8, were found in the area and claimed they had been traveling alone for a “fortnight,” according to newspaper reports.
A fortnight is two weeks, in case you are not familiar with the time reference.
The children said they had been sleeping in hay and straw stacks in the fields and eating food begged at farmhouses along their route or snitched from vegetable garden plots.
Officials brought them to juvenile court, where Judge Coffey asked them how they had come to be traveling on their own.
According to the boys, they were traveling with their parents and five siblings by wagon across North Dakota headed toward Dickinson. Somewhere along the way, they had grown tired and stopped for a little nap. When they awoke, the wagon and their family were nowhere to be seen.
I suppose a family of seven children is difficult to keep track of, but it is no excuse to lose two of them along the way.
The children claimed they had tried to track the wagon but were never able to gain sight of their family.
According to newspaper articles, the children were placed under the Stutsman County sheriff’s authority while officials made attempts to locate their parents.
The newspaper coverage referred to the children as “North Dakota’s youngest vagrants” but also included some skepticism about their story. The article used the term “they said” often and presented no other information about the story.
It appears there were no follow-up articles about the children in any of the regional newspapers.
They may have been runaways, or they might have gotten lost by inattentive parents on a wagon trip across North Dakota
No matter how they came to be traveling along across North Dakota, they managed to spend a fortnight living off the land and surviving.
Author Keith Norman can be reached at
www.KeithNormanBooks.com
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