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Utility regulators in South Dakota declined this week to overrule county ordinances that restrict carbon dioxide pipelines when they denied Navigator CO2 a permit for its project.
Summit Carbon Solutions, a carbon capture company applying for a permit to build part of a $5.5 billion pipeline in South Dakota, has filed an official response to a state
Regulators there let stand county rules restricting where pipelines could be built.
PUC staff argues Summit Carbon, as a consequence of withdrawing its motion to preempt county ordinances, would not comply with those applicable regulations.
County ordinances that were upheld in South Dakota conflict with Summit Carbon Solutions' pipeline route in that state.