Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri was the first U.S. Senator to oppose the U.S. Department of Energy's recent proposal of National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors. Hawley introduced the Protecting Our Farmers from the Green New Deal Act meant to:
- Prohibit FERC from issuing electrical siting permits where State regulators already have jurisdiction to authorize these projects.
- Require FERC to find that any proposed electrical transmission projects it approves minimizes adverse effects on landowners and farmers, adequately compensates them for any loss, and provides benefits to consumers in the State.
- Prohibit FERC from reviewing any electrical siting applications where a State regulator has previously denied an application.
Now Kansas Senator Jerry Moran has jumped on the train to stop NIETCs. Senator Moran says:
Kansas landowners know that these decisions should not be left up to bureaucrats in Washington. When I return to Washington, D.C., I will be introducing legislation that will help protect Kansans private property from being seized by the federal government to build this transmission corridor.
This legislation will:
1. Ban federal funds from being used to condemn private property to be used in a NIETC designation corridor, and
2. Prohibit FERC from using its authority to overrule a state regulator’s rejection of an electric transmission project.
While I applaud what you are doing... can we get it together here, guys?
Although DOE tried really, really, really hard to keep its proposed NIETCs under wraps earlier this year, word is slowly leaking out and America is horrified! NIETCs proposed would take 103 MILLION acres from landowners across the country and place it into designated transmission corridors, without any compensation at all to the landowners. That's millions of landowners nationwide that would have their private property made available to the whims of greedy transmission developers. Is it any wonder that they are outraged by this plan? We've only just scratched the surface of people finding out that the federal government is coming to take their biggest investment and make it worthless. Opposition to this plan is going to be off the charts when public engagement and notification begins later this year. And because the ones who have found out are quickly getting their elected officials involved, it's going to spread. Elected officials who refuse to help their constituents are on the chopping block. (Eh, Joe, you were halfway out the door already, good riddance to bad rubbish!)
NIETCs are not Constitutional. That hasn't been tested yet, has it? It will be.
Although DOE tried really, really, really hard to keep its proposed NIETCs under wraps earlier this year, word is slowly leaking out and America is horrified! NIETCs proposed would take 103 MILLION acres from landowners across the country and place it into designated transmission corridors, without any compensation at all to the landowners. That's millions of landowners nationwide that would have their private property made available to the whims of greedy transmission developers. Is it any wonder that they are outraged by this plan? We've only just scratched the surface of people finding out that the federal government is coming to take their biggest investment and make it worthless. Opposition to this plan is going to be off the charts when public engagement and notification begins later this year. And because the ones who have found out are quickly getting their elected officials involved, it's going to spread. Elected officials who refuse to help their constituents are on the chopping block. (Eh, Joe, you were halfway out the door already, good riddance to bad rubbish!)
NIETCs are not Constitutional. That hasn't been tested yet, has it? It will be.
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