From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom:
Summit Carbon Solutions says it’s on track to break ground on a new carbon capture pipeline next year. It would span 2,500 miles across five states–including Iowa–with a sequestration site in North Dakota. More than 30 ethanol plants in Iowa have signed on to connect to the $5.5 billion project. About 65 percent of landowners where the pipeline would cut through have agreed to let the company build on their land. Summit’s CEO says they’ll use eminent domain to take land from landowners who oppose the pipeline.
But a new poll from Bold Alliance, a network of groups fighting fossil fuel projects, shows more than 80 percent of registered voters across six Midwestern states oppose corporations using eminent domain for private projects.
40 people in Iowa City will be losing their jobs at a construction company. Minnesota-based Knutson Construction Service Midwest is shutting down its Iowa City office. According to the listing on the Iowa WARN Notification website, the 40 employees will be laid off effective October 3. This is just the latest layoff announcement to impact eastern Iowans. Companies like John Deere and Kinze have laid off hundreds of people in recent weeks and months.
Police have made an arrest in connection with a deadly hit-and-run that happened back in April. 47-year-old Shawn Steele is charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and operating while intoxicated. According to a criminal complaint, 52-year-old Tommy Thomas willingly engaged in an ongoing road rage incident over the course of three minutes. Investigators say Steele made several attempts to disengage, and Thomas acted as the aggressor. Steele is currently being held in the Linn County Jail.
Union Pacific’s largest steam train will be heading out of Cedar Rapids this morning as it continues its 10-state Heartland of America tour. The locomotive traveled from Boone to Cedar Rapids yesterday, and will leave at 9 this morning to head east to De Witt, Grand Mound, and Clinton, and then into Illinois.
