IARN — Officials with Navigator CO2 Ventures LLC are pleased with the latest approval to proceed with their proposed carbon capture pipeline system.
Earlier this month, Navigator announced it had obtained necessary board approvals to proceed with its proposed Heartland Greenway project. Elizabeth Burns-Thompson is Vice President of Government and Public Affairs for Navigator. She talks about the latest developments with the project’s planning efforts.
“We’re pushing on the gas to move towards permitting,” said Burns-Thompson. “We’re starting those conversations with the Iowa Utilities Board. We’ve done outreach with the overseeing entities in all of the other states as well. We’ve filed with the board about a proposal for meeting structure. We’re hoping to hear back on that so that we can start ironing out dates and locations and everything associated with those county meetings and start having those conversations with local landowners once we have those meetings.”
The IUB has not approved the project and Navigator has filed IUB Docket No. HLP-2021-0003 requesting public informational meetings to be held in multiple counties across Iowa.
The Heartland Greenway project is a pipeline system that will serve biofuels producers and fertilizer facilities in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Illinois. Most of the project’s footprint will be in Iowa.
Burns-Thompson says Navigator is proud to announce the launch of a new website for the project.
“We have our brand-new project website up, heartlandgreenway.com,” said Burns-Thompson. “That has more details about the background of the project. It will be a living breathing source of information. It will continue to evolve as more information comes to evolve. We’re going to have a drop down for each of the states in which we have a footprint so that landowners don’t have to hunt through a large plethora of information. They can get something that’s very specific to what they are looking for and the process that’s going on in their backyard.”
When the project gets up and running at full capacity, it will sequester enough carbon each year to equal the removal of 2.6 million cars, the planting of 550 million trees, or removing the carbon footprint of Kansas City one and a half times over.
The company will hold a series of public meetings across the project’s footprint in late 2021 and early 2022. The Heartland Greenway’s first phase is projected to commence initial service in early 2025.
Story courtesy of the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network.
Courtesy of Navigator CO2 Ventures LLC.
