Energy Prices Increase with Eminent Domain Use?

A proposed transmission line will likely be denied in coming days by the Missouri Public Service Commissioners. Commissioner’s opposition includes:

• It will raise energy prices
• No benefit for Missourians, including no economic benefit

“The line would cross 724 tracts of land in the state, and if the PSC grants it public utility status, it could use eminent domain to acquire easements it can’t buy. Hundreds of rural landowners have taken to social media, committee meetings in the Legislature and PSC hearings to voice their opposition to the project.”  St. Louis Post Dispatch