POET announces agreement with Summit Carbon Solutions

Sioux Falls based “Poet” Ethanol has announced a partnership with Summit Carbon Solutions to hook on to the proposed Co2 Carbon capture pipeline which would make its was through northeast South Dakota, ultimately sequestering Co2 underground in North Dakota. POET had previously partnerned with the now defunct Navigator Co2 pipeline project which was rejected last year. Of the 17 POET plants currently producing ethanol, five of them are in South Dakota including in Big Stone, Chancellor, Groton, Hudson and Mitchell.