Polk County supervisors are considering opposing Navigator CO2 Ventures' proposed  carbon capture pipeline through the county's northeast corner, potentially joining three dozen other Iowa counties that are fighting similar projects.

Polk County Administrator John Norris said Wednesday he's drafting a resolution that supervisors will consider presenting at a September public meeting on the project.

Based in Omaha, Navigator plans to hold 13 additional public hearings after changing the $3 billion project's proposed route. The in-person meetings begin Monday in eastern Iowa and conclude in Polk County Sept. 21.

It's the second meeting Navigator will have held in Polk County. Since the previous one in January, the company said it's made small adjustments on three miles of the Polk County route after talking with landowners and communities in the area.

Navigator proposes capturing carbon dioxide from ethanol and other industrial agriculture plants, liquefying it under pressure and transporting through the proposed pipeline to Illinois, where it would be permanently sequestered underground.

Two other companies — Summit Carbon Solutions and Wolf Carbon Solutions, which would partner with Archer-Daniels-Midland — plan similar projects.

So far, supervisors in 36 of the 56 counties the pipelines propose to pass through in Iowa have filed objections with state regulators, according to the Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Among the concerns Norris said Polk County supervisors will consider: Navigator's possible use of eminent domain to force landowners to sell access rights for the project, the "long-term destruction of farmland" and whether it makes sense for the federal government to spend billions of dollars to support carbon-capture projects.

Under provisions for fighting climate change in the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday,  pipeline companies could collect up to $85 for each metric ton of carbon permanently sequestered. The tax credit previously had been $50 per ton.

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Navigator, Summit and Wolf could collect $40 billion over 12 years, based on the companies' estimates for carbon capture, according to Washington, D.C.-based Food & Water Watch, one of the environmental groups that opposes the proposed pipelines.

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Navigator says its pipeline has the capacity to capture about 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually; Wolf and Summit peg their capacities at 12 million tons apiece.

"Could there not be a much wiser use of those taxpayer dollars to mitigate climate change?" said Norris, who has spoken out against the project as a private citizen.

Navigator said the company will pay property owners for access to their land, compensate them for lost crop production during construction, and fully restore disturbed soil to its previous condition. Additionally, the project will create "millions of dollars in property tax revenue and create thousands of good-paying, union construction jobs," the company said in a statement.

Here's where Navigator plans to hold public meetings along pipeline's new route:

Aug. 22. Delaware County, noon, The Gathering Place, 1711 N. Second St., Manchester; Buchanan County, 6 p.m., Heartland Acres Agribition Center, 2600 Swan Lake Blvd., Independence.

Aug. 23. Fayette County, noon, The Coliseum, 101 First St. S.W., Oelwein; Bremer County, 6 p.m., The Centre Hall, 1211 Fourth St. S.W., Waverly.

Aug. 24. Butler County, noon, Greene Community Center, 202 W. South St., Greene; Hardin County, 6 p.m., ECC Agricultural Renewable Energy Center, 509 Ellsworth Ave., Iowa Falls.

Aug. 25. Hamilton County, noon, Briggs Woods Conference Center, 2501 Briggs Woods Trail, Webster City; Webster County, 6 p.m., Webster County Fairgrounds, Auditorium Building, 22770 Old Highway 169, Fort Dodge.

Sept. 13. Lyon County, noon, Forster Community Center, 404 First Ave., Rock Rapids; Osceola County, 6 p.m., Ninth Street Centre, 418 Ninth St., Sibley.

Sept. 15. Lee County, noon, Lee County Fairgrounds, Youth Learning Center, 1100 N. Main St., Donnellson.

Sept. 21. Polk County, noon, FFA Enrichment Center, 1055 S.W. Prairie Trail Parkway, Ankeny; 6 p.m. There also will be streaming access via the Iowa Utilities Board at iub.iowa.gov.

Donnelle Eller covers agriculture, the environment and energy for the Register. Reach her at deller@registermedia.com or 515-284-8457.

This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Polk County supervisors considering carbon capture pipeline opposition