(Radio Iowa) – Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum says he is fully confident an Iowa company’s pipeline to ship carbon to underground storage in North Dakota will be built. Burgum is the governor of North Dakota, where a three-member commission has rejected Summit Carbon Solutions proposed route through his state.

Burgum says he expects the pipeline to be approved after a reconsideration. Burgum says North Dakota already has carbon pipelines, including one that’s been running for 22 years. He says “carbon is not the devil element on the periodic table.”