Pipeline Builder Says Data Gaps Make It Hard to Capitalize on Carbon Credits

March 02, 2022

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by Larry Lee (Brownfield Ag News) A pipeline infrastructure company says when it comes to carbon credits, there’s a gap in data collection between the farm and the end-user, making it hard for the entire value chain to benefit.

CEO Matt Vining with Navigator CO2 Ventures tells Brownfield it will take partnerships to get a seamless and transparent flow of data so everyone along the value chain can capitalize on potential carbon credits. “How do we link up the real value chain such that the farmer sees the benefit at, you know, at the soil and not just to the ethanol producer? For us, it’s about creating the integrity of that information, preserving it, and allowing our customers to monetize it.”

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Navigator CO2 Ventures has proposed building the 13-hundred-mile Heartland Greenway pipeline from South Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska diagonally across Iowa to move about 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to permanent underground storage in Illinois from 20 ethanol and fertilizer plants. Local county-level meetings with stakeholders began in 2021. READ MORE; includes AUDIO