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PSC To Set Summit Hearing Schedule
The North Dakota Public Service Commission announced that it will hold a meeting to discuss and set the hearing schedule on the Summit Carbon Solutions CO2 pipeline. From the North Dakota Monitor:
North Dakota pipeline regulators will meet Monday to discuss a schedule for hearings in the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline project.
The Public Service Commission agenda also includes a request to reconsider an earlier decision on pipeline zoning ordinances. The meeting is at 11 a.m. in the Capitol.
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Emmons and Burleigh counties, on the main trunk of the pipeline, passed ordinances with tighter restrictions on where the pipeline could run.
Summit argued that North Dakota zoning laws preempts those ordinances. The PSC sided with Summit on that question.
But Emmons County is challenging the PSC ruling in court and Burleigh County petitioned the PSC to reconsider its order. That reconsideration is part of Monday’s agenda.
In related news, Burleigh County has f…
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