This gets personal.  No matter what path has been proposed for now called the Grain Belt line. it ends up crossing us.  Different proposed routes always end up crossing ground we farm.  But regardless of that we are a few miles directly west of the switchyard where it is going to terminate.  So every proposal crosses ground owned by me or my family. 

I said a long time ago there's enough money behind this, with the knowledge of where to 'invest' a little, that it was going to happen.

Illinois legislature passed a huge energy bill a couple years ago that has a very short paragraph giving the private company eminent domain rights in a few counties (6 I think) in Illinois for a transmission line.

An Illinois court recently rejected a Commerce Commission permit to build the line (that's a condensed version of what's happening)

Now we find the Feds are going to be able to override any state law, rule, or regulation concerning a few "corridors" and guess what one of those is.