CHARLES CITY, Iowa — Republican lawmakers opposing the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline said the Iowa Utilities Commission’s approval of the project was an attack on “God-given” Fifth Amendment rights.
The remarks came from a group of 36 lawmakers who filed a state and a federal lawsuit against the commission for granting eminent domain rights to Summit Carbon for its proposed carbon sequestration pipeline.
“This is a serious erosion of private property rights that we enjoy as Americans and Iowans under the Constitution,” state Sen. Sandy Salmon said in a Sept. 11 press conference in Charles City…