Dear Governor Parson,
I am adamantly opposed to Clean Line Energy’s Grain Belt Express transmission line project and urge you to stand with Missouri landowners, farmers, and residents in opposing Clean Line’s application for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity from the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC).
My husband’s family has had its roots in the City of Hannibal, Missouri, and the farmland of Ralls County, Missouri, for generations. Our family’s farm in Ralls County – Parham Farms – falls directly in the path of Clean Line’s planned Grain Belt Express (GBE) transmission line project.
Companies like Clean Line are not new to me. During nearly a decade working in our Nation’s Capital, I have witnessed well-paid corporations and lobbyists painting pretty stories about how their plans will do good for others, and I know from experience that the truth is always in the bottom line profits. If what is profitable also happens to be good, that can work out just fine, but if not, the outcome can be devastating.
Clean Line is not here because providing clean wind energy is good for Missouri. If Clean Line was here to do right by Missouri residents and farmers, it would be offering them fair value for their land in order to build the Grain Belt Express, rather than asking the PSC to give them a free pass to take what they like for their own bottom line.
I believe that the cultivation of clean energy sources is vital to our nation’s future, and to that of local communities. However, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about clean energy policy, and allowing a private company to declare eminent domain and take away the land of private citizens in the name of wind energy isn’t the right direction – all the more so when that private company’s plans would tear apart a quarter century of local efforts at environmental and habitat protection in Ralls County.
It is the PSC’s job to protect Missouri and its citizens from companies who aren’t providing a “convenient and necessary” service by denying those companies petitions for public utility status. The PSC’s own past findings showed that Clean Line can’t deliver what they promise. I encourage you to stick with Missouri farmers and landowners, no matter how much prettier the picture that Clean Line paints this time around might be.
I ask that you support Missouri residents, landowners and farmers, by opposing Clean Line’s application for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity.
Respectfully,
Rachel Nyswander Thomas Parham
I am adamantly opposed to Clean Line Energy’s Grain Belt Express transmission line project and urge you to stand with Missouri landowners, farmers, and residents in opposing Clean Line’s application for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity from the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC).
My husband’s family has had its roots in the City of Hannibal, Missouri, and the farmland of Ralls County, Missouri, for generations. Our family’s farm in Ralls County – Parham Farms – falls directly in the path of Clean Line’s planned Grain Belt Express (GBE) transmission line project.
Companies like Clean Line are not new to me. During nearly a decade working in our Nation’s Capital, I have witnessed well-paid corporations and lobbyists painting pretty stories about how their plans will do good for others, and I know from experience that the truth is always in the bottom line profits. If what is profitable also happens to be good, that can work out just fine, but if not, the outcome can be devastating.
Clean Line is not here because providing clean wind energy is good for Missouri. If Clean Line was here to do right by Missouri residents and farmers, it would be offering them fair value for their land in order to build the Grain Belt Express, rather than asking the PSC to give them a free pass to take what they like for their own bottom line.
I believe that the cultivation of clean energy sources is vital to our nation’s future, and to that of local communities. However, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about clean energy policy, and allowing a private company to declare eminent domain and take away the land of private citizens in the name of wind energy isn’t the right direction – all the more so when that private company’s plans would tear apart a quarter century of local efforts at environmental and habitat protection in Ralls County.
It is the PSC’s job to protect Missouri and its citizens from companies who aren’t providing a “convenient and necessary” service by denying those companies petitions for public utility status. The PSC’s own past findings showed that Clean Line can’t deliver what they promise. I encourage you to stick with Missouri farmers and landowners, no matter how much prettier the picture that Clean Line paints this time around might be.
I ask that you support Missouri residents, landowners and farmers, by opposing Clean Line’s application for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity.
Respectfully,
Rachel Nyswander Thomas Parham
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