(Radio Iowa) - Public meetings are scheduled in 23 counties for review of the Summit Carbon Solutions plan to expand its proposed pipeline to more ethanol plants.
State regulators have already granted Summit approval to build along its original 688 mile route through the state -- but only if regulators in neighboring states approve the pipeline's route outside of Iowa. The Iowa Capital Dispatch was first to report public hearings are now scheduled in to discuss extending the pipeline another 340 miles.
The expansion represents Summit's agreements with ethanol plants that had been linked to the abandoned Navigator C-O-2 pipeline project. The hearings about Summit's pipeline project expansion start in late August and the last one will be held on September 30th.