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Summit Carbon Solutions details 24-inch pipeline upsizing and community-payments in Woodbury County update
Summary
Summit Carbon Solutions told Woodbury County supervisors it is proposing a 24-inch CO2 pipeline and outlined landowner payment options (survey payments, phased "lump-sum," annual payments and a revenue-linked option) and a county baseline payment estimated at 12.5¢ per foot per year; company estimates roughly $1,000,000 to the county general fund.
Kaylee Gibson, representing Summit Carbon Solutions, gave an update to the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors on the company’s pipeline project, new management and a community benefits package. Gibson said the project is being upsized to a 24-inch pipe under an IUC amendment and that easements will have to be renegotiated because of the change.
Gibson described multiple landowner compensation options: a statutory 72-hour survey notice with a $500 survey payment, a "lump-sum" option paid in three installments (signing, permit, construction), an annual payment option payable for up to 10 years, and an owner-linked payment that would share distributions to the company’s owners. She said baseline stakeholder payments for landowners would be 25¢ per foot per year (rising to 50¢ if acquisition reaches 100% voluntary), and the county baseline would be 12.5¢ per foot per year (25¢ if 100% voluntary). "We are upsizing this pipe to 24 inches," Gibson said, noting that upsizing requires renegotiating existing easements.
On public-safety preparedness, Gibson said Summit will provide an emergency-management grant of $1,000 per mile and will pay for equipment, trainings and county inspectors who have stop-work authority under the agricultural impact mitigation plan (AIMP). She described plans for tribal engagement and water-stewardship measures for cooling towers, saying the water would be recycled or reused and that "there's no CO2 mixture with water or anything like that. It's just used to cool the process." Gibson also presented an updated economic-impact sheet estimating about $1,000,000 directed to the county general fund based on pipe size and length; she noted there is no capture facility in the county that would change the local tax calculation.
Board members and members of the public pressed for details on distribution timing and how emergency funds would be administered. Gibson said the first-year distribution of the emergency grant may be automatic but future years could require an application and that county emergency managers would determine equipment needs and distribution. The presentation closed with invitations to regional open houses and an explanation that route options were still being considered, including alignments through South Dakota or west toward the DJ Basin.
