Missouri’s Attorney General has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit filed by the Grain Belt Express, an 800-mile transmission line that would carry power from Kansas through Indiana.
The Grain Belt Express is suing Monroe County, Missouri because the county hasn’t given approval for the project to come through.
A state-level statute is at risk of being misinterpreted or invalidated and Andrew Bailey tells Brownfield..
“I believe the due process clause has been misinterpreted to allow for the taking of private property for the ephemeral concept of public benefit.