First CO2 Pipeline application filed with PUC as landowners ask about safety, eminent domain of a for-profit company 

First CO2 Pipeline application filed with PUC as landowners ask about safety, eminent domain of a for-profit company 

by Beth Warden, Dakota News Now (February 22, 2022) Caram says if there will be a CO2 pipeline in South Dakota, there are things to make a CO2 pipeline safer, which currently are not required. “And so adding an odorant like they do with natural gas so that people know that there’s been a release, installing what are called fracture arresters at pretty close distances. A valve can act as an arrestor, and often these valves are only every 10 miles and that’s just too far away,” said Caram.