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Planning commission recommends county commissioners consider ordinance banning carbon sequestration activities
Summary
The Marshall County Planning Commission voted to forward a proposed ordinance to the county commissioners that would ban carbon dioxide capture, transport and subsurface storage within the county, adding railroad transport by amendment; the measure is intended as a local zoning control and will be considered by the commissioners.
The Marshall County Planning Commission voted to recommend that the county commissioners adopt an ordinance banning carbon sequestration activities — including compression, liquefaction, transport and subsurface storage of captured carbon dioxide — within Marshall County, and amended the draft to explicitly include rail transport.
Planning staff presented an ordinance (identified in the meeting as Ordinance No. 2025-21) that would amend the county zoning ordinance to prohibit carbon sequestration uses in all zoning districts, add definitions for carbon dioxide, injection wells, carbon dioxide plumes and storage facilities, and bar subsurface carbon dioxide…
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