Big plans are being proposed to capture carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in Nebraska and pipe it away for storage.
“The goal of our project is to capture the carbon dioxide emissions that are currently being emitted to the atmosphere at these facilities – capture it, compress it, place it into a pipeline and then transport it to North Dakota where it would be stored permanently and safely in the geologic storage locations that are deep underground,” Jesse Harris, spokesman for Summit Carbon Solutions – a company formed earlier this year, headquartered in Ames, IA, told Nebraska Public Media.
Harris said Summit has contracts with 31 ethanol plants in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska.
If approved, Harris said, the project would be the largest carbon capture and storage project in the world.
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