艾奥瓦州农场主Sherri Webb的40英亩家族土地即将传给第七代后人；她的奶奶挑选的承租人一直在这里种植玉米和大豆。她如今反对Summit Carbon Solutions的项目，该项目拟穿越其土地，在一条超过2,000英里的路线中横贯爱荷华、内布拉斯加、明尼苏达和南达科他，最终在北达科他地下储存二氧化碳。 支持者称该管道可带来建设就业，并帮助乙醇生产商进入低碳市场，从而间接利好玉米农户，但争议焦点集中在土地征用、环境风险与政策激励。
2024年，爱荷华州公共事业委员会批准了Summit管道的许可，赋予其在其他州路线获批后可申请征收土地的权利。该项目可享受由拜登政府扩张的碳捕集税收抵免，并被特朗普“一个更美好的大法案”继续扩展至增强采油（EOR）；Summit称其为美国油田（含北达科他Bakken）“关键CO2供给动脉”。 反对者是跨越意识形态的联盟：自由派环保组织、农村土地所有者以及部分保守共和党人；与此同时，伊州保守派议员如“有争议的前共和党众议员Steve King”和前州众议长Bobby Kaufmann都公开站在支持方。
反对者不断以安全为由施压，常提到密西西比一例中碳捕集管道泄漏导致居民中毒，而Summit则称这类项目未出现死亡事故。前县监督员Steve Kenkel的农场有超过140年历史，他虽不反对化石能源立场，却坚持“有权说不”并停止向拟合作的乙醇厂售粮。此次争议预计影响六月初选：前州长Kim Reynolds曾否决限制私人土地用于类似管道的法案；而南达科他在2024年通过财产权议程更换温和派议员并禁止该类征收权，北达科他州法官亦暂缓撤销了Summit地下储存许可，显示州级阻力正在上升。
Iowa farmer Sherri Webb said her 40-acre family farm in Shelby County is passing to the seventh generation, and the tenant chosen by her grandmother has long farmed corn and beans there. She is now opposing Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposed pipeline, which would run through her land on a route of more than 2,000 miles across Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota before terminating in North Dakota for underground storage.
In 2024, Iowa’s utilities commission granted Summit permission that could trigger eminent-domain authority if the route is approved in other states, and the project can use carbon-capture tax credits expanded under Biden and later broadened under Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to include enhanced oil recovery. Summit calls the line a critical CO2 artery for U.S. oil basins such as North Dakota’s Bakken, while a cross-partisan alliance—liberal environmentalists, rural landowners, and some conservative Republicans—now contests it; supporters include former Republican congressman Steve King and current Iowa House leader Bobby Kaufmann.
Safety concerns and political incentives are driving the conflict toward elections, with some landowners citing a Mississippi rupture that allegedly poisoned residents and Summit disputing it by saying no deaths occurred in similar projects. The dispute also features local resistance tactics, including 140-year farm Steve Kenkel’s grain-sale boycott, and could shape June primaries after Governor Kim Reynolds vetoed a bill to limit private land use for similar pipelines; neighboring South Dakota replaced moderates with property-rights candidates in 2024 and banned eminent-domain for carbon-capture lines, and North Dakota recently paused Summit’s storage permit, signaling rising state-level obstacles.
Source: An environmentalist, a landowner and a libertarian walk into a bar
Subtitle: How a pipeline tangled political alliances in Iowa
Dateline: 4月 09, 2026 03:39 上午 | SHELBY COUNTY, IOWA