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Power line proposal dropped by feds

By Brian Hagen

12/16/2024

(MSC News)--A long discussed, controversial power line project that would have affected properties in several local counties, is not moving forward.

That comes in an announcement made Monday by the U.S. Department of Energy which said the Midwest Plains proposed transmission line has been removed from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Interest Transmission Corridor project.

The energy department announced that the number of proposed transmission line corridors has been narrowed from ten to three, leaving the Midwest Plains Corridor on the cutting room floor. It was proposed to begin in southwest Kansas and end in Illinois, locally running through the Kansas counties of Marshall, Nemaha, Brown, and Doniphan.

In September, Kansas Senators Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall, along with 1st District Congressman Tracey Mann, introduced a bill to protect property rights in Kansas as part of their effort to keep the transmission line from becoming a reality.

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