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Letters to the Editor

Counties are duty-bound to exercise local control of CO2 pipeline setbacks

To the editor: As 2023 ended, CO2 pipelines topped the list of newsworthy items in Iowa. Heading into 2024, County Boards bear a heavy responsibility as they deal with pipeline ordinances while the state awaits the IUB’s decision on Summit’s permit application. Summit likes to tout ...

Celebratory high-fives are premature for Summit Carbon Solutions

To the editor: Landowners targeted for eminent domain by Summit Carbon Solutions won several substantial victories in recent weeks, but the fight is far from over. Our celebratory high-fives must wait. Summit remains a very real threat to the private property rights of Iowa ...

Questions motivation

To the editor, The broad undocumented assertions in Fritz Groszkruger’s letter, “Working for a cleaner planet” (Oct. 27) make it difficult to know where to begin to find truth, reality or his motivation. But it might be worth trying. For example, he states without providing any ...

Working for a cleaner planet

To the Editor, I too find it interesting that so-called conservatives have joined forces with the Sierra Club and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement in opposing carbon pipelines as David Kruse points out. I see it as a good thing when people come together. The pipelines wouldn’t need ...

Comments on IUB hearing

To the editor: After reading the very revealing letter “Gov. Reynolds must take control of IUB hearing” by Bonnie Ewoldt from Milford, I am curious why she would think the governor would intervene and provide constitutional justice to those landowners who are battling agri-business ...

Due process in question at IUB

Much to the dismay of Summit Carbon Solutions, easements for over 1,000 parcels on its hazardous CO2 pipeline route remain unsigned. The clock is ticking, and time is running out. Construction is behind schedule, and the project is over budget. The company needs speedy approval to use eminent ...

Reasons not to support pipelines

To the editor: Re the CO2 pipelines: 1. These projects are completely unnecessary. Daily, there's new technology being developed on alternate uses/ways to mitigate the CO2. The pipelines will rapidly become obsolete. 2. An ISU professor did a study and determined that the amount of CO2 ...

Regarding CO2 pipelines

To the editor: We (Iowa farmers) don’t make the rules of the game, but we do have to play by the rules. I don’t like calling it a game, but in a sense that is what it is. Corn growers invest millions of check-off dollars annually to promote corn and pro-ethanol legislation. Our government ...

A lesson in farm history

To the editor: After reading the two recent Farm New articles supporting ethanol and carbon pipelines by David Kruse, I guess he is entitled to his opinion but not his facts. His two-legged stool analogy (that grain and livestock production was not sustainable enough so ethanol provided the ...

Farmers, land owners beware

To the editor: Every farmer and land owner should be very afraid of the Iowa Utilities Board. On March 9, 2022, Governor Kim Reynolds gave a speech in which she said, “As long as I am Governor, Iowa is going to be a state where you can live your life freely, where you don’t have to ...