Full Text of SR1392 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC, plans on | 3 | | constructing the Grain Belt Express Line, a 750-mile overhead | 4 | | transmission line that would carry electricity produced by | 5 | | Kansas wind farms across portions of Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, | 6 | | and Illinois; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The central Illinois portion of the transmission | 8 | | line would span the entire width of the State, including | 9 | | Macoupin, Montgomery and Christian Counties in the 95th | 10 | | Legislative District; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The majority of the energy transported along the | 12 | | transmission line will benefit consumers on the East Coast and | 13 | | will not be used by rate payers in Illinois; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, The transmission line will likely have a | 15 | | detrimental impact on landowners in these areas, as the | 16 | | transmission towers will decrease the value of their land and | 17 | | will make it more difficult for them to farm their property; | 18 | | and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC has, in the past, | 20 | | submitted to the United States Department of Energy an | 21 | | application for "Federal Siting Authority", which would grant |
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| 1 | | the company the powers of eminent domain; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The powers of eminent domain would allow a private | 3 | | company to seize land from private landowners that refuse to | 4 | | grant easements to their property that would allow construction | 5 | | of the transmission line; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Anything that encroaches upon the property rights | 7 | | of individual land owners in Illinois needs to be carefully | 8 | | considered before being enacted; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, On April 10, 2015, Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC | 10 | | submitted an application to the Illinois Commerce Commission | 11 | | for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, On November 13, 2015, the Illinois Commerce | 13 | | Commission approved the project with certain conditions that | 14 | | must be met by Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC; therefore, be | 15 | | it | 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 17 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge Clean Line | 18 | | Energy Partners, LLC to not file an application for eminent | 19 | | domain proceedings and urge State and federal courts to reject | 20 | | any request for eminent domain authority; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | delivered to Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC.
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