6 years, 7 months ago by Scott Hardy
Company now likely to file suit
The Missouri Public Service Commission has denied a request from a Texas company for a re-hearing on its' request to build a high-voltage power line across the state, including through Monroe and Ralls Counties.
The Commission Tuesday denied requests from Clean Line Energy Partners and the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission for a rehearing on Clean Line's request to build the Grain Belt Express power line through the state. That line would transport wind-generated electricity from Kansas, across Missouri and Illinois and continue east. The Commission is a group of cities that want to buy electricity from Clean Line, and includes the city of Hannibal. The PSC also denied a re-hearing request by the Missouri Landowner's Alliance, a group opposed to the line. Last month, the PSC denied Clean Line's third application for permission to build the line in Missouri. That decision was based on a Western Appeals Court ruling against Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois, who got the PSC's approval to build the Mark Twain Transmission Line, before it received approval from the County Commissions in the line's path. Ameren has since revised the route of the line, so that 90% of the line will be built on already-existing lines with Northeast Power and Ameren Missouri. That revised project has been approved by the counties, and Ameren is now seeking PSC approval.
Clean Line is now expected to seek approval for its' project through the courts. Read the PSC's decision below.
