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Court to decide if proposed Summit permit change affects pipeline opponents’ lawsuit, audio files added at the end
Oral arguments heard in request to remand the case to utilities commission BY: CAMI KOONS–OCTOBER 10, 2025 3:23 PM Attorneys for Summit Carbon Solutions argued Friday in Polk County District…
07 Oct 2025 – Board of Supervisors – Webster County, Iowa – Summit Carbon Solutions Presentation
07 Oct 2025 – Board of Supervisors – Webster County, Iowa Summit Carbon Solutions presentation to Webster Co Iowa BOS https://rumble.com/v701lvk-07-oct-2025-webster-co.-iowa-bos.html
Rep Steven Holt’s No Eminent Domain for Private Gain Rally and Fundraiser at Kenkel Family Farm in Shelby Co, Iowa
Top Pictures were obtained from the Wendy Larson Campaign Video 1: https://rumble.com/v6zy9jq-rep-steven-holt-and-rep-charley-thomson.html Video 2: https://rumble.com/v6zycn2-2-legislators-and-former-supervisor-steve-kenkel.html Senator Taylors Letter written after the HF639 senate debate: https://freesoilfoundation.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3848&action=edit Video 3: https://rumble.com/v6zydaw-former-congressman-steve-king-ia-4th-dist..html Video 4: https://rumble.com/v6zyfjm-iowa-gov.-candidate-andrews.html Video…
GOP candidates for Iowa governor voice their opposition to CO2 pipelines
Landowners and state lawmakers gather for anti-pipeline rally BY: CAMI KOONS–OCTOBER 5, 2025 8:52 PM EARLING — A mostly red-clad audience at a barn in Shelby County on Sunday asked…
Jan Norris’s comments to Adams Co Board of Supervisors
Jan Norris to Adams Co BOS Read entire document here! https://freesoilfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025.9.29-Adams-County.pdf Thank you Jan Norris!
Jan Norris’s Comments to the Board of Supervisors – Montgomery Co, 30 Sept 2025
Mont Co BOS – Summit on Agenda -Public Comments 9/30/25 Good Morning, I’m Jan Norris from West Township. Summit is a business with their own priorities and are here to…
MOTION FOR CONSOLIDATION OF DOCKETS OR ISSUANCE OF A COMMON SCHEDULE, SCS Latest Filing
The latest filing from SCS to the IUC Dockets dated 29 Sept 2025 https://freesoilfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Summit-Motion-for-Consolidation-of-Dockets-or-Issuance-of-a-Common-Schedule-RTF-3.pdf
Independent research shows our aquifers and communities are one crack away from danger — while officials keep repeating “the science says it’s safe.”
Please visit their website! Used for Educational purposes only! Fair Use. For Links, visit their pages. by Renee Savant September 20, 2025 Exposé, Part I: Cracks in the Promise —…
Objection to IUC Summit Dockets, Thank you Nelson Baethke
Great Objection on the IUC website. Thank you Nelson To the Members of the Iowa Utilities Commission: There is a crisis unfolding in the country’s heartland, and the latest poling…
Response from Jon Hansen, Candidate for Governor, South Dakota to North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley
North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley is threatening to sue South Dakota to overturn our hard-fought law protecting landowners from eminent domain abuse. Let’s call this what it is:…
North Dakota AG ‘examining all possibilities’ concerning legal options over South Dakota’s CO2 pipeline eminent domain law
by Ken Duffy, September 18, 2025 WATFORD CITY, N.D. – North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley says they’re “examining all possibilities” when asked if the state plans to sue South…
Pipeline opponents call for regulators to reject Summit’s proposed permit changes
BY: ROBIN OPSAHL-SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 4:39 PM The Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club and some landowners called Tuesday for the Iowa Utilities Commission to reject Summit Carbon Solutions’ petition…
SCS Amendments Filed 15 Sept 2025 to the IUC Docket No. HLP – 2021 – 0001
The following are new amendments and supporting documents for SCS dated 15 Sept 2025, found on the IUC website: https://efs.iowa.gov/search/documents?searchRun=Document&docketNumber=HLP-2021-0001 First page is seen in JPEG, but the documents can…
Summit’s Shameless Power Grab – OPINION EDITORIAL from Congressman Steve King, Ret.
OPINION EDITORIAL RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: Sept. 16, 2025 Summit’s Shameless Power Grab Bruce Rastetter’s Summit Carbon Solutions is at it again. Their CO2 pipeline scheme—siphoning emissions from…
New letter from SCS CEO, Dated 05 Aug 2025
https://freesoilfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SCS-letter-dated-05-Aug-2025.pdf Do not fall for a revised version of their trap. It is your land, your legacy! No Private for Profit Company has a claim to what’s yours! Do Not…
The saga continues under new management but the abuses are the same! Unconstitutional Land Grab with Lipstick!
The saga continues under new management but the abuses are the same! No Eminent Domain for Corporate/Private Gain! No matter what they do, it’s still unconstitutional! Like a friend…
SCS Exhibit H’s on IUC dockets as of 04 Aug 2025
Exhibit H – Parcels of Unsigned Easements Please look within maps at version number / date/ Not all have been updated by Summit but it is the latest in system.…
Burgum Orders Scale-Back on Solar, Wind Projects, Citing Low Energy Efficiency
Date? 01 Aug 2025 A wind farm is roughly 5,500 times less efficient in producing energy than a nuclear plant on a per-acre basis, according to the Department of the…
EPA proposes an end to rule that critics say ’empowered years of climate alarmism’
By Kevin Killough Published: July 29, 2025 10:57pm Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said the rule had been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris…
Federal appeals court denies request for rehearing. from Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa disciplinary board reprimands lawyer representing landowners in pipeline suits Plus, federal appeals court denies request for rehearing in Summit case BY: CAMI KOONS – JULY 29, 2025 4:05 PM…
The Climate Crisis that Wasn’t — But the Bill Sure Is Real
The Climate Crisis that Wasn’t — But the Bill Sure Is Real I remember the 1970s like it was yesterday. All the talk back then was about global cooling…
IUC Filing – Comment on Notice of Conclusion of Exhibit H Filings – Dated 19 June 2025
Thank you Richard Brandau for this submission to the dockets for SCS Exhibit H – Landowners Parcels that HAVE NOT SIGNED! Comment on Notice of Conclusion of Exhibit H…
SCS Fails to File Appeal in SD and the IUC Final Decision and Order, Dated 25 June, 2024 – Phase One – HLP-2021-0001
starting with pages 476…. V. ORDERING CLAUSES IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED: 1. The petition for hazardous liquid pipeline permit filed by Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC, on January 28, 2022, as…
Summit’s CO2 Boondoggle June 13, 2025
Summit’s CO2 Boondoggle June 13, 2025 The Summit Carbon Solutions’ Midwest Carbon Express pipeline is a colossal boondoggle, a taxpayer-funded fiasco masquerading as environmental progress. Spearheaded by Iowa agribusiness tycoon…
Green New Steal Meets Drill Baby Drill: Farmland Caught In Crosshairs
Green New Steal Meets Drill Baby Drill: Farmland Caught In Crosshairs BY TYLER DURDEN SATURDAY, JUN 14, 2025 – 01:35 PM Welcome to the latest cesspool of crony capitalism. The…
REP. GOLDING: A modern story of greed, selfishness happening in Iowa today
REP. GOLDING: A modern story of greed, selfishness happening in Iowa today
