Federal regulators to host CO2 pipeline meeting in Des Moines

Federal regulators to host CO2 pipeline meeting in Des Moines

By Shane Butterfield, Community Newspaper Group (May 30, 2023)

“There’s no requirement to add an odorant into the pipeline so that the public could know that there is a dangerous level of CO2 that could be asphyxiating them,” observed Bill Caram, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, according to the Iowa Capital Dispatch report. “We need better regulations to identify the communities that could be impacted in the case of a pipeline failure. Notably, Satartia was not identified by the operator Denbury as being potentially impacted by the failure.”