There’s good news and bad news for both sides of the ongoing battle over eminent domain and carbon sequestration pipelines.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’s veto of a bill aimed at blocking the use of eminent domain for carbon pipelines is being celebrated as a win for Summit Carbon Solution, while the Iowa-based carbon pipeline company’s staunchest adversaries in South Dakota say they’re unfazed by the development.
That's because, despite the decision by the Iowa governor on Wednesday being a blow to landowner rights advocates on both sides of the state line, leading voices in the anti-eminent domain movement here say they've been reassured by the country's most powerful federal lawmaker that Congress isn't likely to strip South Dakota of its authority over carbon pipelines.
