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A row of wind turbines on March 11, 2009.

The Grain Belt Express power line gets final approval in Missouri

Wayne Pratt

The Missouri Public Service Commission has approved the high-capacity transmission line to carry clean energy from Kansas through northern Missouri and Illinois despite landowners’ concerns.

"It’s going to create a big, obvious scar completely across the state," landowner Loren Sprouse says of the proposed power-transmission line known as the Green Belt Express. "And it’ll be the single biggest, ugliest thing in northern Missouri and with it set a precedent for more to be built just like it.”

Health, Science & Environment

Landowners fear a 'scar' on landscape from project to bring green energy across the Midwest

The transmission line known as the Grain Belt Express would deliver wind energy from southwest Kansas to other parts of the country — the equivalent of 15 million barrels of oil annually. Some landowners oppose a private company using eminent domain to complete its project.

The route of the Grain Belt Express that will take power generated from wind turbines in Kansas through Missouri and Illinois to connect with other transmission lines.

Government, Politics & Issues

Grain Belt Express Moving Forward With Land Purchases

Jonathan Ahl

Invenergy has bought 45% of the land it needs to run the electric transmission line across northern Missouri.

Wind turbines and transmission towers in the Fowler Ridge Wind Farm in Benton County, Indiana.

Health, Science & Environment

Missouri PSC Approves Controversial Multi-State Wind-Energy Transmission Line

Eli Chen

The Missouri Public Service Commission gave the green light Wednesday to allow a 780-mile wind-energy transmission line to be built across Missouri.The…