Gazette Daily News Briefing, August 5 and August 6

This is John McGlothlen with The Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Saturday, August 5th and Sunday August 6th.

According to the National Weather Service, on Saturday, we’ll have a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 8 p.m. It will be partly cloudy, with a low around 67.

Then Sunday, we’ll have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8 a.m., then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Showers and thunderstorms are likely after 2 p.m. with a high near 82. The low should be around 64.

A restaurant that been a Coralville institution for nearly 46 years will be closing this fall. The owner of Iowa River Power Restaurant, at 501 First Ave., said she received an eviction notice from the owner of the building. The restaurant’s last day of service will be Nov. 26 — the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Danise Petsel and her husband, David, bought the restaurant in 2002, which had opened in October 1977 in what had once been a power plant along the Iowa River dating to the early 1900s.

In the first test of a proposal to build a carbon dioxide capture pipeline connecting ethanol plants across five states, North Dakota regulators Friday unanimously denied granting a siting permit to Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions. The North Dakota Public Service Commission was the first state board to consider the request, which was planned to cross 320 miles in that state. Summit proposed the underground pipeline to capture CO2 from more than 30 ethanol plants in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, and to store it deep underground in North Dakota. In a statement, Summit said it would revisit their proposal and reapply for their permit. Evidentiary hearings on its proposal to build 687 miles of the route in Iowa, crossing 29 counties, are set to start Aug. 22 in Fort Dodge and last several days. Summit has indicated it wants a decision by the Iowa Utilities Board on its hazardous pipeline permit by the end of the year.

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