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Another pipeline parts company accuses Summit of backing out of contract

  • Cami Koons

The company planning to build a carbon sequestration pipeline through Iowa is being sued by a second pipeline parts company, this time for $6.6 million.  SCS Carbon Transport LLC, an affiliate of Summit Carbon Solutions, is being sued by Patton Myhre Sourcing, a Texas-based company that Summit allegedly contracted with to purchase custom valves.  Patton […]

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Democrat PSC candidates question attorney’s safety stance

  • Jeff Beach

Democratic candidates for North Dakota Public Service Commission say recent statements by a PSC attorney about pipeline safety point to larger problems in state government.  PSC attorney Zachary Pelham told a judge that the agency can’t consider public safety when evaluating the route of an interstate hazardous liquid pipeline in North Dakota.  John Pederson and […]

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Courts order North Dakota to pay landowners’ legal fees in two lawsuits

  • Jacob Orledge

A judge this month awarded North Dakota landowners attorney fees in a lawsuit against the state over a property rights law found to be unconstitutional. The ruling means the state could owe nearly $975,000 in legal costs to the landowners and groups behind three related court challenges filed since 2019.  “We are grateful that the […]