Transmission Lines Incite Eminent Domain Fears. County Denied & Retracts Consent.

Missouri is grappling with the Grain Belt Express Clean Line, a transmission line to move wind energy. The majority of county governments and land owners have not approved the transmission line.

Right now the transmission line is tied up in the Missouri version of the PUC, and the drama is rising.

Ralls County has become engaged in the statewide regulatory approval of the transmission line. The county went so far as to make clear that it has never consented to the the transmission line and it “retracts and denies” consent until  ““[u]ntil such time that Grain Belt Express Clean Line LLC has utility status in Missouri and the approval of the Missouri Public Service Commission.”

Hannibal Courier Post