If you really just are rubber stamping whatever comes before you, let's just shut down your council.

Grain Belt Express exemplifies the type of transformative transmission projects capable of delivering the triple play of affordability, grid reliability, and more domestic renewable energy production.

Why is it a good idea to go over the heads of the people of Missouri and give this expressway, which is being developed by a private company that's making probably billions of dollars on it as they take farmers' land?

Don't you think that it's kind of incredible that this private company, Invenergy, that is responsible now for Greenbelt Express that is making boatloads of money on it, that is taking farmers' land in my State without compensating them?

What strikes me is farmers have opposed this for years. Farmers have been trying to get a hearing for years.

They cannot even get compensated for their land. This corporation is making billions, and you are telling me there's just nothing you can do about it.

Don't you think that it's kind of incredible that this private company, Invenergy, that is responsible now for Greenbelt Express that is making boatloads of money on it, that is taking farmers' land in my State without compensating them?

Why is it a good idea to go over the heads of the people of Missouri and give this expressway, which is being developed by a private company that's making probably billions of dollars on it as they take farmers' land?

I think it's outrageous that a private corporation can take this kind of land.

They cannot even get compensated for their land. This corporation is making billions, and you are telling me there's just nothing you can do about it.

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All of this, and the State of Missouri still gets-- originally, we were going to get no benefit from the Grain Belt Expressway. Zero.

All of this, and the State of Missouri still gets-- originally, we were going to get no benefit from the Grain Belt Expressway. Zero.

If you really just are rubber stamping whatever comes before you, let's just shut down your council.

I think it's outrageous that a private corporation can take this kind of land.

Grain Belt Express exemplifies the type of transformative transmission projects capable of delivering the triple play of affordability, grid reliability, and more domestic renewable energy production.

I just have a problem with that. I just think it's ridiculous.

What strikes me is farmers have opposed this for years. Farmers have been trying to get a hearing for years.