Summit Carbon Solutions still isn't giving up on building a pipeline through South Dakota.
They may have found a way to avoid a legal or political battle against a new law. That law would stop them from using eminent domain to steal the land easements it needs to build the pipeline.
The new plan would also eliminate segments that connect the ethanol plants where there is significant landowner opposition. The company filed a petition with the state that says they could reduce the number of plants connected to the pipeline, and therefore, lower the number of opposed landowners.
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