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Planning commission recommends countywide ban on carbon sequestration, adds railroad language
Summary
The Marshall County Planning Commission voted to recommend that commissioners adopt an ordinance (draft no. 2025-21) to ban carbon dioxide capture, transportation and subsurface sequestration within the county; members added language to include rail transport and forwarded the draft to county commissioners.
The Marshall County Planning Commission on Aug. 29 voted to recommend that the County Commissioners adopt a zoning ordinance (drafted as Ordinance No. 2025-21) that would prohibit construction and operation of facilities for the compression, liquefaction, transport or underground sequestration of captured carbon dioxide within Marshall County.
Planning staff explained the draft ordinance would amend the county zoning ordinance to list carbon sequestration and related transport as “not permitted” in all zoning districts and to add definitions for terms including “carbon dioxide plume,” “carbon dioxide injection well,” and a storage facility…
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