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via New York Times
By Mitch Smith, 3/21/23

“…This time, said Brian Jorde, a lawyer who represented Keystone XL landowners and now represents many farmers on the carbon routes, opponents have a playbook to guide them. Landowners have tried to prevent the pipeline companies from surveying their land, pressed county governments to enact moratoriums on carbon pipelines and signed up en masse to intervene in state permitting hearings.

“From being through an 11-year battle and all the twists and turns and the hundreds of lawsuits” on Keystone XL, Mr. Jorde said, “we’ve got a very well-laid-out plan.”

via KMTV
by Isabella Basco, 3/25/22

“Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing to build a carbon dioxide pipeline dubbed "The Midwest Carbon Express" that would connect more than 30 ethanol plants in five Midwestern states: North and South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska, spanning more than 2000 miles. The pipeline would run through Iowa for more than 680 miles.

Attorney Brian Jorde is representing landowners opposed to the Summit pipeline.

"The problem is, the use of eminent domain, to take the land of farmers, homeowners so that they can make private profits off this project," Jorde said.

via AgWeek
by Jeff Beach, March 17, 2022

“As public hearings on the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline are set to begin in South Dakota, the legal jousting over the right eminent domain has begun in Iowa.

Domina Law, a Nebraska law firm that says it has clients in all five states along the Summit pipeline route, has filed a motion in regard to what it calls Summit’s “defective filing” for a permit in Iowa, where the carbon capture pipeline would originate…”

via Redfield Press
By Shiloh Appel, 2/24/22

“In the February 2nd landowner meeting in Redfield, local farmers and ranchers discussed their concerns with the project…. “Mark Lapka also brought up that several affected landowners have signed up for a collective representation with attorney Brian Jorde from Nebraska. “He is one of, if not the best, pipeline attorneys on behalf of landowners in the country. Not just the state of Nebraska,” said Lapka.

via Iowa Public Radio
By Kendall Crawford, February 24, 2022

“Iowa landowners are uniting to defend themselves against the use of eminent domain. The newly formed Iowa Easement Team wants to stop Summit Carbon Solutions and Navigator CO2 Ventures from using eminent domain to build pipelines throughout Iowa. Hundreds of farmers in the path of the recently proposed carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) pipelines have jointly hired the Omaha-based Domina Law to lead their legal effort.”

via The Oskaloosa Herald
By KYLE OCKER, 2/23/22

“Iowa landowners have formed a new alliance group aimed to carry out a united legal strategy to oppose two proposed carbon pipeline projects,” the Oskaloosa Herald reports.