Category: Eminent Domain & Condemnation News

State’s Largest Wind Farm Planned in NW Missouri

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Element Power, an energy company located in Portland, Oregon (website:  http://www.elpower.com/) has proposed to build a wind farm, named Mill Creek Wind Farm, that will generate 200 megawatts of electricity.  The wind farm would be located near Oregon, Missouri, in Holt County, which is in northwestern Missouri.    The power would ... Read More

East Locust Creek Reservoir Creek Project Funded

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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has released the final $2 million for the East Locust Creek Reservoir Project.  The reservoir will serve 10 counties in northeast Missouri, providing drinking water.  The North Central Missouri Regional Water Commission will now need to acquire the property needed for the reservoir, and could use ... Read More

SWEPCO Route Approved in Arkansas

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The route in northern Arkansas for the 345kv electric transmission line to be built by Southwestern Electric Power Company ("SWEPCO") has been approved.  To read more, see:  http://www.lovelycitizen.com/story/2043645.html .   Receive Updates on this Project

Randolph County Residents sign Petition to Oppose Grain Belt Express

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More than 400 residents of Randolph County, Missouri, signed a petition to oppose the Grain Belt Express high-power transmission line.  The petition was presented to the Randolph County Commission, but the Commission did not rescind its support for the line.  Commissioners believe that the Grain Belt Express Clean Line could ... Read More

Grain Belt Express receives approval from FERC

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The Grain Belt Express Clean Line project received approval in early May 2014 from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).  Read more at:  http://kansasfirstnews.com/2014/05/11/grain-belt-express-receives-approval-from-federal-commission/.   Receive Updates on this Project

Missouri lawmakers hope to block eminent domain for Grain Belt Express

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Missouri Representative Dr. Jim Neely, R-Cameron, has filed a bill seeking to change state law concerning eminent domain powers exercised by utilities.  This could affect the ability of Clean Line Energy Partners to build the Grain Belt Express Clean Line. Mr. Robert Denlow of Denlow & Henry testified before the Missouri ... Read More

Farm Bureau opposes eminent domain for Grain Belt Express

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Missouri Farm Bureau's board of directors has voted to oppose granting the use of eminent domain to the Grain Belt Express "Clean Line."  Read more here:  http://www.hpj.com/archives/2014/apr14/apr28/0418GrainBeltExpressdb.cfm.   Receive Updates on this Project

Proposed Route for Grain Belt Powerline through Missouri is announced.

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Clean Energy Partners has announced and published the "final" route of the proposed Grain Belt Express Powerline through Missouri.  Eight Missouri counties are affected:  Buchanan, Clinton, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Randolph, Monroe and Ralls. The controversial transmission line project is designed to moved so-called "clean" energy gernerated by windmills in the ... Read More

Grain Belt Express Clean Line Applies for Public Utility Status in Missouri

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Clean Line Energy, plans to build the Grain Belt Express Clean Line, a 750-mile long high-voltage direct-current overhead transmission line, to carry electricity generated by wind-powered generators in Kansas to the East Coast.  The company says it will cost about $2.2 billion to build the transmission line.  Of that $2.2 ... Read More

Grain Belt Express Clean Line Opposed by Landowner Group and Marion County, Missouri

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The Grain Belt Express Clean Line, an approximately 750-mile long proposed high-voltage, direct current transmission line that will transmit wind energy from Kansas to the east coast, has encountered opposition from landowners, who have formed a group called "Block Grain Belt Express." Marion County, Missouri has also declared official opposition to ... Read More

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