Navigator CO2 Ventures proposed to build a 2,000 kilometre pipeline to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to be stored underground in southern Illinois. Environmentalists, farmers and landowners joined forces to oppose the Heartland Greenway pipeline which was canceled after it was denied a construction permit by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission.
Navigator CO2 is one of three firms that have planned to build carbon capture pipelines in the Midwest, promoting what climate advocates and scientists have decried as an energy-intensive, unproven.
Friday the developers behind the Navigator carbon pipeline announced the project is cancelled.The 1300-mile pipeline was to cross parts of Iowa, as well as, Sou
Navigator CO2 Ventures, which has faced setbacks on permitting, announced Friday, Oct. 20, that it would scrap its project to collect carbon emissions from ethanol plants in five states.