We said NO to Navigator's CO2 pipeline
The Navigator pipeline was proposed to connect ethanol and fertilizer plants in Iowa to a pipeline leading to Illinois where the CO2 would be stored underground.
We let Navigator know that we did not want Navigator's pipeline. And our strategy worked. Oct. 20, 2023, Navigator cancelled its Heartland Greenway carbon dioxide pipeline project.
The Navigator pipeline was proposed to connect ethanol and fertilizer plants in Iowa to a pipeline leading to Illinois where the CO2 would be stored underground. It connected the Poet ethanol plants to the pipeline. Further, Navigator has decided to build-out its pipeline network in two phases. See a map of the counties that were to be crossed by Phase 1 of the project. Below is a map of Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the project.
View our Tri-Fold Factsheet about the Navigator Pipeline.
To read the filings on the Navigator pipeline, use the Utilities Board docket number "HLP-2021-0003" (Navigator CO2 Ventures LLC, Petition for a Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Permit).
The Boards of Supervisors from counties across the state wrote letters to the Iowa Utilities Board objecting to the pipeline project and telling the Board to deny the use of eminent domain for the pipeline projects.
See map of counties that have filed objections. Below is a list of the counties and a link to what they have filed:
- Adair - Navigator, filed September 26, 2022
- Bremer - Navigator, filed August 3, 2022
- Buchanan - Navigator, filed September 6, 2022
- Buena Vista - Navigator, filed January 26, 2022
- Butler - Navigator, filed February 17, 2022
- Clay - Navigator, filed February 23, 2022
- Delaware - Navigator, filed September 2, 2022
- Dickinson - Navigator, filed December 28, 2021
- Emmet - Navigator, filed January 7, 2022
- Floyd - Navigator, filed September 27, 2022
- Keokuk - Navigator, filed on July 14, 2022
- Kossuth - Navigator - filed December 8, 2021
- Iowa - Navigator, filed December 7, 2021
- Jefferson - Navigator, filed August 31, 2022
- Lee - Navigator, filed June 8, 2022
- Linn - Navigator, filed January 13, 2022
- Mashaska - Navigator, filed June 24, 2022
- O’Brien - Navigator, filed December 21, 2021
- Osceola - Navigator, filed January 10, 2022
- Palo Alto - Navigator, filed December 21, 2021
- Plymouth - Navigator, filed April 26, 2022
- Pocahontas - Navigator, filed January 10, 2022
- Poweshiek - Navigator, filed March 4, 2022
- Sioux - Navigator, filed January 24, 2022
- Story - Navigator, filed December 14, 2021
- Woodbury - Navigator, filed January 11, 2022
Counties that requested to intervene or had already intervened in the Navigator pipeline case before the Iowa Utilities Board are:
- Bremer
- Butler
- Delaware
- Dickinson
- Emmet
- Floyd
- Woodbury
Towns and Cities Objecting to the Navigator Pipeline; telling Utilities Board to deny eminent domain
- City of Fairfax, Navigator, filed 12.22.21
- City of Walford, Navigator, pg 11, filed 12.20.22
- Mount Vernon, Navigator, pg 47, filed 1.21.22
- City of Kinglsey, Navigator, filed 2.18.22
- Marengo, Navigator, pg 32, filed 2.11.22
- Story City, Navigator, filed 3.16.22
- Deep River, Navigator, pg 2, filed 3.25.22
- City of Rockford, Navigator, pg 5, filed 3.20.22
- City of Terril, Navigator, pg 6 filed 3.20.22
- Palmer, Navigator, filed 7.22.22
- City of Fairbank, Navigator, filed 8.25.22
- City of Oelwein, Navigator, filed 8.30.22
- City of Manchester, Navigator, filed 9.13.22
- City of Readlyn, Navigator, filed 9.20.22
- City of Independence, Navigator, filed 9.20.22
- City of Fremont, Navigator, filed 11.14.22
- City of Waverly, Navigator, filed 1.13.22
- City of Armstrong, Navigator, filed 1.20.23
- Shell Rock, Navigator, filed 2.14.23
- City of Clarksville, Navigator, filed 4.7.23
- City of Gruver, Navigator, filed 4.11.23
- City of Wallingford, Navigator, filed 5.2.23
- City of New Providence, Navigator, filed 5.12.23
- City of Dolliver, Navigator, filed 7.5.23
- City of Sioux City, Navigator, filed 11.9.23