But some landowners in the path of proposed pipelines have expressed concerns about safety, damage to farmland and drain tile, and the use of eminent domain by companies to gain right-of-way.
The PUC decided that pressurized carbon dioxide is a toxic or corrosive gas, therefore subject to the PUC’s existing regulatory authority.
Attorney Hudson Kingston, representing Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, also testified that legislators “were saying that the commission should be regulating things that can kill people or things that can leak acid into waterways, and in both respects, these pipelines meet that definition as well.”
