Summit Carbon Solutions

Reports, press releases, featured media, and documentation on land deals, land rights and development issues related to Summit Carbon Solutions.

Publications

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit's CO2 Pipeline

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit’s CO2 Pipeline , unmasks the billion-dollar financial interests and high-level political ties driving the Midwest Carbon Express. Led by Summit Carbon Solutions, the project intends to build a 2,000-mile pipeline to carry CO2 across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, to eventually inject and store it underground in North Dakota. Having failed to...

The Midwest Carbon Express: A False Solution to the Climate Crisis

The report debunks the world’s largest proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) pipeline project and reveals the checkered history of the man behind it — Bruce Rastetter.

Land Deal Brief: Lives on Hold

In June 2011, the Oakland Institute (OI) released details of the largest land deal in Tanzania, which had been hidden away from public scrutiny prior to that and obscured from national debate and discussion. The deal involved Iowa-based Summit Group and the Global Agriculture Fund of the Pharos Financial Group working in partnership with AgriSol Energy LLC and Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Land Deal Brief: Eight Myths and Facts About AgriSol Energy in Tanzania

The June 2011 publication of the Oakland Institute’s investigation into AgriSol Energy’s land deal in Tanzania was followed by an indicting televised report from Dan Rather, the involvement of international civil society including the Sierra Club, Tanzanian activists, and a broad array of supporters from around the world. Yet, AgriSol still plans to go ahead with this large-scale agricultural project to produce agrofuel and genetically modified...

Videos & Audio

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit’s CO2 Pipeline

Interview with The Oakland Institute about Bruce Rastetter and Carbon Pipelines

Summit Carbon Solutions

Publications

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit's CO2 Pipeline

The Midwest Carbon Express: A False Solution to the Climate Crisis

Land Deal Brief: Lives on Hold

Land Deal Brief: Eight Myths and Facts About AgriSol Energy in Tanzania

Press Releases and Public Statements

No False Solutions! Citizens Mobilize to Educate Governor Reynolds and the IUB on Dangers of Carbon Pipelines

Joint Letter to TPG Rise Climate — Divest from Summit Carbon Solutions' Carbon Pipeline Project

Joint Letter to Tiger Infrastructure Partners — Divest from Summit Carbon Solutions' Carbon Pipeline Project

Open Letter to Congress Calling to Suspend All Funding and Tax Credits to Summit Carbon Solutions and other CCS Projects

Open Letter to the Iowa Utilities Board – Say No to Summit Carbon Solutions’ Carbon Pipeline Project

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Videos & Audio

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit’s CO2 Pipeline

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit’s CO2 Pipeline

Interview with The Oakland Institute about Bruce Rastetter and Carbon Pipelines

Media

No False Solutions! Citizens Rise Up to Resist Dangerous Carbon Pipelines in the Midwest

Alan Guebert: Summit at the heart of 'The Great Carbon Boondoggle'

Guebert: American agriculture's Great Carbon Boondoggle, Part 2

A New Report Exposes the Billion-Dollar Financial Interests and Political Connections Behind the Midwest Carbon Express Project

CO2 Pipeline a 'False' Solution, Report Says

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Documentation and Contracts

Midwest Carbon Express: Documentation and Fact Sheets

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