(Radio Iowa) - Officials from seven Iowa counties are asking the Iowa Utilities Commission to reconsider its conditional approval of the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline project.
Shelby County Board of Supervisors chairman Kevin Kenkel (KENK-ull) says the commission's decision did not address zoning issues and the counties also maintain that Summit's pipeline does not benefit the public at large and should not be granted the right of eminent domain. In addition to Shelby County, officials from Kossuth, Floyd, Emmet, Dickinson, Wright and Woodbury Counties signed the 16-page challenge filed with the Iowa Utilities Commission.
Monday was the deadline for filing the paperwork, asking the Iowa Utilities Commission to rescind Summit's construction permit. Landowners who oppose the project and the Sierra Club of Iowa have also filed objections.