The state Public Utility Commissioners set Summit Carbon Solution’s application maximum filing fee.
Parties interested in intervening in the upcoming Summit hearing may have tighter restrictions.
Summit Carbon Solution’s carbon pipeline project is now estimated to cost over $1,000,000,000. PUC commissioners unanimously voted to set a maximum filing fee for their project to not exceed $875,782 dollars.
Passing the maximum filing fee was the only piece of the application the commissioners agreed on. The list of individuals allowed to intervene in the docket may be smaller than expected. Interveners are a party who have a direct interest in the docket. The PUC wanted to drop the allotted distance for interveners from ten miles to two for the project.
Ed Fischbach is a farmer in Spink County. He spoke against the proposed change.
“Because of your two-mile limit, the new proposed route through our area would put me about four and a half miles away from the pipeline now, when it was originally crossing me. But what I discovered in my new application, and I think this would put me back in, which when I went, and didn’t see it the first time I applied, was under appendix eleven." said Fischbach. "Exhibit four, I find that our original routes are still listed on the docket. So there for, I got the assumption that none of us are in the clear yet.”
The commission voted to delay a decision on interveners outside of the two-mile radius of the proposed route.
Commissioners set a deadline of January 24th to receive any more intervention requests.
