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Posted on 07/14/2025 6:37:54 AM PDT by george76
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley announced Thursday that the Department of Energy (DOE) is canceling its Grain Belt Express project.
Hawley’s X post announcing the DOE’s decision to cancel the project followed a conversation with President Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The post also called the Grain Belt Express a “green scam” that is “costing taxpayers BILLIONS.”
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The Grain Belt Express was a $11 billion transmission line project designed to carry electricity from wind farms in Kansas across Missouri and Illinois to Indiana. “Energy demand is growing – our grid needs an upgrade,” the project’s website states, “No other project saves consumers more.”
The Grain Belt Express line faced investigation by Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office in early July. A press release from Bailey’s office stated that the investigation stemmed from “widespread concerns over misleading claims and a track record of dishonesty.”
“We will not allow a private corporation to trample property rights and mislead regulators for a bait and switch that serves out-of-state interests instead of Missourians,” Bailey said in the July 2 press release.
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The investigation, a Civil Investigative Demand (CID), pointed out the dependence of the Grain Belt Express upon “speculative and possibly fraudulent assumptions,” including a made-up carbon tax that “was never enacted by Missouri or federal law and does not exist.”
The use of this fictitious “carbon tax” in projecting supposed benefits of the project “more than likely” inflated the value predicted for Missouri consumers, according to Bailey’s formal letter to the Chair of the Missouri Public Service Commission. The predicted benefits included $52 billion in energy cost savings over 15 years, according to the Grain Belt Express Website.
Hawley’s announcement follows several Trump administration cuts to expensive green energy projects since taking office.
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Good, wind farms are a scam.
As are the worse eyesore of solar farms.
This will be good news to some people I know.
Don’t talk, do. Is the purpose of this article to get this issue out there so a judge can stop it?
Kill it dead.
Wind farms become tornado chow during storms.
Is there any hope that corn alcohol is on this boondoggle’s that need to be killed list? I know keeping it was the price of Trump’s taking the Iowa primary but that was 10 or so years ago.
Spot on, just do it. This constant sending out notice of intent just invites a hack Judge to obstruct and the is probably by design
I really believe that is their MO. The old “run it up the flagpole and see what happens” thing.
So many farmers moved to growing corn...that's why string beans are $2= dollars a pound. I must have picked a pound a day from my little garden.
We have had a similar project proposed and pushed here in Oklahoma for at least the last 15 years. It was defeated once and it is being challenged again after their second or third or whatever try.
Oklahoma and other places have developed a captive supply of wind power that needs to be moved out of state to more lucrative markets. Meanwhile, the wind power producing regions enjoy a relatively lower cost of electricity. This will end one way or another when the subsidies end. The facilities are not economic without the tax credits and other favors.
I think there is a very black cloud behind the ultimate demise of wind power and in it are higher rates for the producing areas as wind is replaced by the most expedient source of power, natural gas. There will be a headlong rush to replace wind with natural gas and prices for that will be like any price in a rush, very high. The other item in the coming black clouds will be bankruptcy of the wind farms and leaving the mess for the taxpayers to clean-up and it will be a big mess and an expensive clean-up.
Green and net zero energy. The folly that just keeps on giving and costing.
Excellent question. I doubt it will be killed anytime soon. There was a brief time though when the mandate and subsidy were suspended or planned to be suspended wasn’t there?
I hope another green scam gets axed. There was a plan to gather the “evil” CO2 being belched out by corn ethanol plants in Iowa and transport it via pipeline across Iowa and South Dakota to be pumped into deep underground formations in North Dakota. Farmers in South Dakota were already being threatened by eminent domain actions for pipelines across their property.
Good, wind farms are a scam.
Thus, more power back to the states, which is what Trump is moving toward.
The UCC code is a good example of states negotiating to address problems sans federal govt.
The birds of America appreciate this!
“You have to replace it with a new source before you remove it.” Do you just make that up? Or even think about it?
Corn alcohol is added to gasoline. It need be replaced with nothing. It’s really quite simple. Quit adding corn alcohol to gasoline.
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