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JEFFERSON CITY, MO. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court has approved the state's portion of a controversial wind power transmission line that would provide energy from the Midwest to a power grid for eastern states.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Tuesday against landowners and the Missouri Farm Bureau, who claimed the Public Service Commission erred in March when it approved construction of the Grain Belt Express Transmission line.
The $2.3 billion high voltage line would be one of the nation's largest wind energy projects, carrying electricity generated by Kansas windmills 780 miles across rural Missouri and Illinois before hooking into a power grid in Indiana serving eastern states.
The project is expected to cross the property of 570 Missouri landowners across more than 200 miles and eight northern counties.
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