Jan Norris, a Montgomery County resident, updated Page County supervisors on recent legal and regulatory activity surrounding Summit Energy’s proposed carbon dioxide pipeline and urged local officials to press the company for specifics.

Norris said Summit has filed a nearly 400-page petition to amend its Phase 1 conditional permit and asked a district court to remand the permit appeal back to the Iowa Utilities Board for reconsideration. “Do they even have a plan? They don't have a route,” Norris said, adding that Summit’s filings change pipe diameters and crossings and add an ethanol plant to the project description.

The comment stressed several practical points for local officials to consider: which route the pipeline would take through Page County, how pipeline diameter changes would affect land and crossings, what the end use of the CO2 would be, and how much water Summit would require for hydrostatic testing and where that water would be sourced and discharged. Norris also said Summit had launched a “community and landowner partnership program” offering grants and payments that she described as incentives for voluntary easements; she said some landowners view those payments as creating pressure on neighbors to sign.

Norris cited recent litigation and appeals, saying Shelby and Story counties took a permit-case issue to the U.S. Supreme Court and that Summit had moved to consolidate multiple dockets into a single project. She urged supervisors to ask Summit specific questions, including the firm’s water-use plans and route details, and offered to meet with county officials for a more detailed briefing.

The remarks were made during the meeting’s public-comment period and do not represent a formal county action. No motion or vote on pipeline-related items is recorded in the meeting transcript.

Norris provided the board with a list of county actions and invited supervisors to contact her for further information.