Posted on May 23, 2022
Lessons from Dakota Access Pipeline shape farmers' battle over proposed carbon pipelines
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Farmers in the Midwest are gearing up for a fight over whether pipelines can cut through their land. Many look to the experience other farmers had with the Dakota Access Pipeline a few years ago.
Keith Puntenney is still feeling the impacts from the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through a corner of his central Iowa farmland.
Three acres of the land isn’t worth planting, Puntenney said, five years after part of the 1,200-mile pipeline was put under his land to carry crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois. He says the soil is compacted and doesn’t get the same yields.
“They promised that they would remediate the soil,” he said. “They never did.”
Now another pipeline, this one carrying carbon dioxide, could be adjacent to another section of Puntenney’s farm.
“Déjà vu,” he said. “This is just … the same thing, different day.”
Keith Puntenney is still feeling the impacts from the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through a corner of his central Iowa farmland.
Three acres of the land isn’t worth planting, Puntenney said, five years after part of the 1,200-mile pipeline was put under his land to carry crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois. He says the soil is compacted and doesn’t get the same yields.
“They promised that they would remediate the soil,” he said. “They never did.”
Now another pipeline, this one carrying carbon dioxide, could be adjacent to another section of Puntenney’s farm.
“Déjà vu,” he said. “This is just … the same thing, different day.”
Lessons from Dakota Access Pipeline shape farmers' battle over proposed carbon pipelines
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Iowa State University
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Pipelines always worry me.
Here we have a lot of farms and ranches with strips fenced off for the pipelines. Can't farm that.
Here we have a lot of farms and ranches with strips fenced off for the pipelines. Can't farm that.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Pipeline companies ‘on the hook’ to restore farmland
Navigator CO2 Ventures would be obligated to make the proper repairs if there was any harm done, for instance, to the McKeans' drainage system, said Navigator’s Elizabeth Burns-Thompson.
“In year three, four or five, if it’s just not repaired correctly and they had any kind of flooding or any damage to the property and any impact to their crops, we’re on the hook for that,” she said. “We have to keep them whole for that.”
Navigator hasn’t filed a permit application in Iowa yet. Neither has Archer Daniels Midland and Wolf Carbon Solutions for their proposed project in Iowa and Illinois. But Iowa company Summit Carbon Solutions has applied for a permit with the Iowa Utilities Board.
The permit application’s agricultural impact mitigation plan says Summit will pay landowners for 100% of the crop lost to production in the first year after construction, 80% of the loss in the second year and 60% of the crop lost in the third year."...
..."Pipeline companies ‘on the hook’ to restore farmland
Navigator CO2 Ventures would be obligated to make the proper repairs if there was any harm done, for instance, to the McKeans' drainage system, said Navigator’s Elizabeth Burns-Thompson.
“In year three, four or five, if it’s just not repaired correctly and they had any kind of flooding or any damage to the property and any impact to their crops, we’re on the hook for that,” she said. “We have to keep them whole for that.”
Navigator hasn’t filed a permit application in Iowa yet. Neither has Archer Daniels Midland and Wolf Carbon Solutions for their proposed project in Iowa and Illinois. But Iowa company Summit Carbon Solutions has applied for a permit with the Iowa Utilities Board.
The permit application’s agricultural impact mitigation plan says Summit will pay landowners for 100% of the crop lost to production in the first year after construction, 80% of the loss in the second year and 60% of the crop lost in the third year."...
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