OSAGE, Iowa — The Mitchell County Conservation Board has formally objected to Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposed CO2 pipeline, filing paperwork with the Iowa Utilities Commission opposing the use of eminent domain on public conservation land.

The objection was submitted December 11 in connection with Summit Carbon Solutions’ hazardous liquid pipeline permit applications. In the filing, the board asks regulators to deny eminent domain authority for the pipeline route through the Nelson Paradise Wildlife Area, a publicly owned conservation site managed for habitat protection and the preservation of state-listed endangered species.

The board said the property was acquired for ecological conservation, not for private industrial use, and warned pipeline construction would “significantly and ir

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