Dozens of Iowa counties will be affected if three carbon-capture pipelines are built, and that includes North Iowa. A portion of the Summit Ca…
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Iowa House speaker says he expects legislation 'of some form' on CO2 pipelines.
Carbon dioxide pipeline developers will have a chance to argue for a judge's order to prevent Woodbury County landowners from interfering with attempts to enter their land to survey.
Residents of Linn, Johnson, Cedar, Clinton and Scott counties will have a chance in September to share their thoughts about another proposed CO2 pipeline — this one connecting ADM ethanol plants.
In a May 27 letter to the Dakota County Board of Commissioners, the tribe said it had concerns the projects by Summit Carbon Solutions and Navigator Ventures may negatively impact reservation lands.
The Iowa Legislature has failed to block the use of eminent domain for a $4.5 billion pipeline project to capture millions of tons of carbon dioxide from 32 Midwest ethanol plants and send it to an underground storage site in North Dakota. Almost 700 miles of this pipeline would run through Iowa and the project would take advantage of federal and state subsidies. A recent Reuters review of the 868 public comments that were filed with the Iowa Utilities Board indicated that 98.9% were opposed. Who will really pay for more taxpayer-subsidized infrastructure to support practices that are destroying the only Earth we have?
Carbon capture pipelines have been a hot topic in North Iowa over the last year, and one of the projects is making progress towards its next phase.
Concerning eminent domain, the No. 1 question is: Can a department of the State of Iowa grant the State of Iowa’s power of “eminent domain” to…
DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad on Tuesday defended the process whereby state regulators approved an underground oil pipeline being built acr…
DES MOINES — The effort to try to keep an underground crude oil pipeline from being built in Iowa is moving from court action to civil disobed…
A group of landowners in the path of an interstate crude oil pipeline is suing Iowa regulators, contending eminent domain shouldn’t have been …
DES MOINES — Almost as quickly as state regulators on Thursday unanimously approved a permit for a $3.8 billion, 30-inch diameter interstate p…
DES MOINES | Chanting "No oil, clean soil," protesters on Thursday delivered to a state agency more than 1,000 objections to a proposed pipeli…
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CHEROKEE (AP) | A judge says he'll rule soon on whether a lawsuit filed by three landowners in the path of a proposed oil pipeline can proceed…
CHEROKEE | A state judge said he will rule within two weeks on whether three landowners in the path of a proposed crude oil pipeline can proce…
DES MOINES | Several Iowa landowners in the path of a planned Bakken crude oil pipeline expressed confidence Wednesday they will prevail in a …
DES MOINES | Legislation making it more difficult for private companies to acquire access to private property through condemnation cleared two…
DES MOINES | In his first three years in the Iowa Legislature, Rep. Bobby Kaufmann has made reining in the use of eminent domain to condemn pr…
DES MOINES | Iowa landowners in the path of a planned oil pipeline will get their first face-to-face meetings next month with Texas oil compan…
DES MOINES | Rep. Ralph Watts, R-Adel, told fellow House members Wednesday they could be facing “the largest unjustified taking of private pro…
CEDAR RAPIDS | Three eastern Iowa legislators say they will co-sponsor bills to strengthen Iowans’ private property rights by limiting the tak…
On the front page of last Sunday’s Globe Gazette there was a woman who says she feels “unimportant” because (a Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa…
DES MOINES — It’s do-or-die time for a host of policy bills that legislators had hoped to get accomplished this session.
A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Monday, Feb. 21:
