September 7, 2023
As one state has declined a request from a CO2 pipeline that would also come through Illinois, the local opposition to the idea remains strong. South Dakota regulators unanimously denied Navigator’s permit for a CO2 pipeline through that state.
Nick Dodson with the Sangamon Valley Sierra Club said transferring an asphyxiant via pipeline is not safe. “Navigator is trying to have their maiden voyage of a carbon dioxide pipeline be a 1,300 mile pipeline and they’ve never managed one single mile of CO2 pipeline,” Dodson told WMAY. “So I think it’s extremely difficult to consider.”
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