Full Text of HR0371 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE 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; | 12 | | therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 15 | | urge the Illinois Commerce Commission to carefully consider the | 16 | | application submitted by Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC for | 17 | | its Grain Belt Express Line, and to grant the application only | 18 | | if the company identifies clear and substantial benefits to the | 19 | | State of Illinois that definitively outweigh any deprivation of | 20 | | property rights or land value of the citizens of Illinois; and | 21 | | be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | delivered to the Illinois Commerce Commission.
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