South Dakota regulators will charge a carbon dioxide pipeline company up to $876,000 to help cover the cost of evaluating its new permit application.
Its Summit Carbon Solutions second attempt for a South Dakota permit. The state Public Utilities Commission rejected Summits first application last year, due in part to the pipeline routes conflicts with local siting laws. The company recently reapplied with an adjusted route.
The filing fee for the first application was $592,500, which the Iowa-based company paid in full. The new fee brings the companys total potential filing costs to $1.47 million. New costs will be assessed up to the maximum $876,000 that commissioners approved Dec. 17 during a meeting in Pierre.
The project would transport CO2 captured from 57 ethanol plants in five states including 15 plants in eastern South Dakota to underground storage wells in North Dakota. The company hopes to capitalize on federal tax credits incentivizing the prevention of heat-trapping carbon emissions.
The 2,500-mile route includes 698 miles in South Dakota. The South Dakota portion of the $9 billion project would cost about $1.35 billion.
The project has a storage permit in North Dakota and route permits in North Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota, although opponents continue to mount various legal and administrative challenges. Nebraska has no state permitting process for carbon pipelines.
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