LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Rose presents position on Ameren power line 

Credit:  VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Reporter | June 19, 2013 | shelbyvilledailyunion.com ~~

SHELBYVILLE, IL. – Although an agreement was reached to keep the proposed Ameren power line route out of Shelby County, one state senator believes the whole project is unnecessary and should be scrapped.

State Senator Chapin Rose said that he will fight against the proposed high voltage power lines that Ameren wants to run through his district as well as the construction of the Mt. Zion substation that is included in the plan.

Rose (IL-51st District) told Shelby County landowners Saturday that he believes the substation Ameren is wanting to build at Mt. Zion is unnecessary and that he would fight the project for the entire 10-county district he represents.

“There is no incentive to build the Mt. Zion substation,” Rose said. “I will fight the whole project. This whole thing is just wrong.”

Ameren is looking to erect lines across Central Illinois to provide energy from the Plains to the East Coast in an effort to build up the power grid with wind energy.

“Most of the power is going over us. Illinois will receive no benefit from it, but the Ameren customers will be paying for it,” Rose said.

He added that he has filed a bill to fight the project, but the bill has to go through the normal review process.

Ameren has proposed routes which will either bypass Shelby County or pass through it. In May, State Representative Adam Brown reported that Ameren and Moultrie County made an agreement which would take to route farther to the north through Piatt and Douglas counties and into Edgar County to the Indiana line. This agreement would bypass Shelby and Moultrie counties, but would give Ameren the substation at Mt. Zion.

“Ameren really wants the Mt. Zion substation. I’m not convinced it is necessary nor is it the cheapest way to do it. I’m trying to knock out the whole project,” Rose said.

Rose explained that there is a “spider web” grid already in place throughout Illinois and that power would transfer with that grid to other power lines already in place without having to erect the proposed line.

He explained that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has guaranteed a 12 percent rate of return to Ameren for the transmission line. He added that Ameren customers will be paying 9 percent of the cost and will receive nothing from it.

“FERC is the problem. It’s a waste of money,” Rose said. “Congress has ordered FERC to come up with the least costly way to do it.”

“You still have a case; you’re still in this,” Rose said. “I think we’re so mad now that it will become a decade long fight not just here but across the country. We have to view this as a five to ten year fight. We’re in it for the long haul,” Rose said.

Source:  VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Reporter | June 19, 2013 | shelbyvilledailyunion.com

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon