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Brookings County forms pipeline subcommittee, urges state eminent-domain reform after CO2 update and public comment
Summary
County officials heard an update on CO2 pipeline planning, received hours of public comment highlighting safety and property concerns, adopted a resolution urging the state to reform eminent-domain law and voted to create a county pipeline subcommittee to guide local review and outreach.
Brookings County commissioners on Tuesday ordered the county development director to start a pipeline subcommittee and adopted a resolution urging the South Dakota Legislature to pass eminent-domain reform after an extended briefing on proposed CO2 transmission infrastructure and a multi-hour public comment period.
The action followed a presentation by county staff and a prolonged public-comment period in which residents and other speakers raised safety, emergency-response, insurance and property-value concerns tied to proposed high‑pressure CO2 lines and asked the commission to adopt local setback or permitting rules.
County development director and emergency manager Bob Hill summarized local planning, zoning and emergency work tied to pipelines and federal guidance from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). Hill told the commission that pipelines “do not need to come through the Brookings County zoning commission to get permission to do a pipeline” but that above‑ground facilities larger than 10 by 12 feet must seek conditional‑use review. He also…
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