(Radio Iowa) – A northwest Iowa farmer who has agreed to let the Summit Carbon pipeline run through his family’s land is part of a group lobbying legislators Tuesday — urging passage of the proposal that would give the company more leeway to rechart its pipeline route around landowners who won’t sign a voluntary easement.
Kelly Nieuwenhuis of Primghar, a former member of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, was president of the Siouxland Energy ethanol plant in Sioux Center when it signed the contract to hook up to Summit’s pipeline. He says the project has taken longer than anticipated to get off the group, but the success of a pipeline in Nebraska that started shipping liquid carbon to Wyoming this fall shows the value of Summit’s project.
Nieuwenhuis has four natural gas pipelines, a crude oil pipeline, wind turbines and electrical transmission lines on his farms — and Nieuwenhuis says he had no qualms about signing a voluntary easement for Summit’s pipeline to cross his property given his experience with all of those projects.
