Des Moines, Iowa — The Iowa House has endorsed a temporary measure in response to landowner complaints about proposed carbon pipelines.
Under the proposal, developers wouldn’t be able to apply for eminent domain authority to seize property for the carbon pipelines before February 1st of next year. Representative Bobby Kaufmann a Republican from Wilton, says it’s about ensuring the negotiation process between the pipeline companies and landowners is fair.
Representative Steven Hansen, a Democrat from Sioux City, says this doesn’t respond to landowners who have no desire to have the pipelines on their properties.
House Democratic Leader Jennifer Konfrst of Windsor Heights says this should be the start of the legislature’s hard conversation about these kind of projects.
Representative Kaufmann says current regulations are too vague.
Representative Chris Hall, a Democrat from Sioux City, says legislators should examine proposals now that would protect landowners.
On a voice vote, the House attached the temporary moratorium to a far larger budget bill that now goes to the Senate for consideration.
