Dive Brief:
- Kansas farmers are opposing a major power line project designed to deliver wind power to Indiana.
- The farmers object to letting the 750-mile power line proposed by Clean Line Energy Partners cross their land.
- Clean Line aims to have the project operating by 2018.
Dive Insight:
Kansas would benefit from the transmission project through the potential wind farms that would be built in the state. At the moment, wind developers have no way to deliver their energy to the East. However, like most major infrastructure projects, Clean Line is facing opposition from land owners who worry their property will lose value and that they won't be able to use it the way they have in the past. But getting property owners to sign off on the project in Kansas is probably among the least of Clean Line's hurdles to bring their project to fruition.