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North Central Kansas | I have a 345kv line on my property 3/8 of a mile West of my house. When the built it the neighbors protested so it got moved onto my property. It doesn't really bother me. I tell people that I was going to have to look at it either way but this way I got paid to look at it. I try not to spend too much time under. You can tell how much juice is getting pumped through it by the noise it makes. It makes a crackling noise and the insulators sing. The higher the demand the more it sings.
This deal is a little bit different. From what I have read the easement on these lines is 5 miles wide. No houses or livestock can be raised in that corridor. So from Kansas to Illinois there will be a strip 5 miles wide that will be devoid of houses and livestock. This is not like any of the other lines that are across the US. This is a High Voltage DC line. The Federal government wants this because without it we will not be able to convert to renewable energy as fast as they want us too. There are areas of Kansas where you might be able to do a five mile corridor and not hit any houses. Definitely going to be passing over a lot of grazing land. As you move East in Kansas and into Missouri and Illinois the impact of towns and homeowners will be significant as the population density increases. They have been talking about this for several years as it is close my area. In none of those discussions have I ever seen anything about this requiring a 5 mile exclusion zone until after the comment period was closed this requirement was announced. Seems to me that this probably should have been disclosed earlier and by not doing so it kind of appears to me that they were trying to pull a fast one. Even our US Senators and Representatives were blindsided by the 5 mile zone. | |
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Department of Energy 5-20 mile wide corridors
