To the editor: Last month, Summit Carbon Solutions received a conditional permit from the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC) to construct a 680-mile CO2 pipeline across Iowa. The proposed pipeline, named the Midwest Carbon Express (MCE), will carry pressurized CO2 from ethanol plants across five ...
To the editor: Sustainable aviation fuel or SAF is quoted as potentially being a 35 billion gallon-a-year domestic market by 2050. This I believe is incorrect because SAF presently is a blend of conventional fossil fuel and synthetic components made from renewable feed stocks, which ethanol ...
To the editor: After reading the latest March 8 Farm News articles by Sen. (Charles) Grassley and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, the capitalist ploy called misdirection was dancing its clever jig. It would take a book to unravel all the nonsense spewed by the authors of those ...
To the editor: It was great to see David Kruse writing about Javier Milei, the new president of Argentina (March 8 Farm News). It might not be Haiti, but it’s been close to the bottom with nowhere to go but up for many years. Milei describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist,” which ...
Growing up, I enjoyed listening to Paul Harvey’s radio program, “The Rest of the Story.” To see the whole picture, this is my take on the rest of the story on carbon capture. Did you know that CO2 makes up only .04 percent of the earth’s atmosphere? Most of the world’s carbon ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...