As a landowner, farmer and rancher, I am urging you to vote “no” on Referred Law 21.

This is a corporate, greed-driven agenda that is not for farmers. Summit Carbon Solutions is an out-of-state, foreign-backed company that is attempting to build the largest CO2 pipeline ever constructed and SCS has never even built a pipeline. This pipeline would reach across five Midwestern states (ND, SD, MN, IA, NE) carrying highly pressurized (2200 psi) liquid CO2. CO2 is extremely dangerous — it is invisible, odorless, and deadly by suffocation-if the pipeline ruptures. After Summit Carbon Solutions was denied a permit by South Dakota’s PUC in 2023, they engaged friendly legislatures to change the law.

Those legislators wrote Senate Bill 201, and was narrowly voted into law 39 to 31. Eleven of those 39 have since been voted out of office. Then our governor, who also sold us out, signed this fake landowner bill of rights.

The landowners immediately banded together and started collecting signatures. They needed 17,000, but were able to collect over 35,000. As a result we now have Referred Law 21 on the ballot. Our fight is not over.

We need the biggest, loudest “no” vote in referred law history to make our legislators hear the people, and to wake up the idle county commissions. For farmers, ranchers, landowners and every county resident’s safety, I urge you to vote “no” on Referred Law 21.