Heartland Greenway CO2 Ventures decided last fall to cancel a carbon dioxide pipeline that would have served Boone County and other areas of Nebraska.

Now, a different company, Summit Carbon Solutions of Ames, IA, announced Monday it has changed its project plan, and that eight Valero Renewables plants will be contract shippers on the planned Summit CO2 pipeline.

Summit will hold two open house meetings in Albion to provide information regarding safety around CO2 pipelines.

A first meeting here will be next Tuesday, March 12, 7 to 9 a.m., at the Casey building on the Boone County Fairgrounds.

The second meeting will be held Tuesday, March 26, at the same times and at the same location.

Valero’s ethanol facilities across Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, and South Dakota are expected to be incorporated into Summit’s project, which includes the Valero Renewables plant at Albion.

Participation from these eight facilities adds 1.1 billion gallons of ethanol per year and will lead to the capture of millions of metric tons of CO2 annually, making the Summit pipeline the largest proposed carbon capture and storage project in the world.

With the inclusion of Valero, Summit’s project now extends to 57 ethanol production facilities across the upper Midwest, from which it would capture and sequester over 16 million metric tons of CO2 per year.

Before this expansion, the Summit project in Nebraska was proposed to serve ethanol facilities at Norfolk, Plainview and Atkinson.

Summit also recently announced a partnership with ethanol producer POET for carbon sequestration.