An Iowa farmer who has agreed to let the Summit Carbon pipeline run through his family’s land was part of a group lobbying legislators Tuesday — urging passage of the proposal that would give the company more leeway to rechart its pipeline route around landowners who won’t sign a voluntary easement. Kelly Nieuwenhuis (NEW-in-house) is a former member of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board and an investor in the Siouxland Energy ethanol plant.
“This project will create a lot of growth in demand for the corn producers across the state of Iowa, so trying to get the project done,” Nieuwenhuis said. “Do our best to get as many voluntary easements as possible. 100% would be awesome, but we’re in today’s work, so I don’t know how that’s going to happen.”
Nieuwenhuis was president of Siouxland Energy’s board of directors when it signed the contract to hook up to Summit’s pipeline to export carbon from the plant in Sioux Center. Nieuwenhuis told reporters he had no qualms about signing a voluntary easement for Summit’s pipeline.
