Proposed carbon capture and a storage pipeline project would make participating ethanol plants more environmentally friendly. Officials with Summit Carbon Solutions and the Ringneck Energy ethanol plant at Onida, South Dakota, invited media, legislators, and other folks on a tour to provide more information about the carbon capture pipeline Summit is proposing to build.
Summit?s storage project would connect 32 ethanol biorefineries across five states in the upper Midwest? Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Ringneck is one of the plants that have signed on to the project. Walt Wendland is the President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Ringneck Energy. He said allowing the carbon emitted by the plant to be captured will make an efficient plant even more environmentally friendly.
Wendland added that low carbon fuel is becoming a requirement in some parts of the country and the world.
Summit Chief Executive Officer Lee Blank said Ringneck Energy and the 31 other plants that have agreed to participate play a ?very important role to the partnership.?
Blank said the ground in North Dakota makes it an idea place to store carbon.
Summit?s proposed project will cut the carbon footprint of partner ethanol plants in half, which will help ensure the long term environmental and economic sustainability of the facilities. Blank said that, so far, 45 percent of the landowners along their proposed route have voluntarily agreed to easements.
