CEDAR RAPIDS – Wolf Carbon solutions has withdrawn an application to build a 95-mile liquified carbon pipeline through Iowa, and landowners here are rejoicing.
Back in January of 2022, Wolf Carbon Solutions and ADM announced an agreement paving the pathway toward
further decarbonization of ADM’s footprint via construction of a pipeline – developed, owned and operated by Wolf Carbon Solutions – which, together with a commercial agreement, will allow for the capture, compression and transportation of carbon dioxide produced at ADM’s Clinton and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, facilities. The pipeline would have run through Linn, Cedar, Clinton, and Scott counties in Iowa.
Designed as the backbone infrastructure needed to support the region’s lower carbon transition, the 350-mile steel trunk line (including the Illinois portion) would be capable of transporting 12 million tons of CO2 per year. The pipeline would offer dedicated capacity to transport CO2 from ADM’s ethanol and cogeneration facilities in Clinton and Cedar Rapids to be stored permanently underground at ADM’s fully permitted and already-operationalsequestration site in Decatur, Illinois. The pipeline would have significant spare capacity to serve other third-party customers looking to decarbonize across the Midwest and Ohio River Valley.
On December 2, 2024, via a filing with the Iowa Utilities Commission, Wolf withdrew its application for a permit to construct the pipeline in Iowa. This comes after landowners and environmentalists expressed great concern for the possible impact the pipeline might have. Wolf may attempt the pipeline project in the future if regulatory barriers fall.