JACKSON — The Guardians of Liberty in Southeast Missouri will hear from Susan Burns at its November 4th meeting.
Burns says she is fighting a “David and Goliath” battle. Ms. Burns will be joining us to share information about the wisdom of turning farm land into solar wastelands, so you do not want to miss this November 4th meeting.
Susan Burns is very knowledgeable on the process of government subsidies pushing policies that are not good for our State. and how it has been approved by the Missouri Public Service Commission.
Burns, a 75-year-old woman who lives on a Hatton farm that has been in her family for more than 100 years, leads what she estimates to be approximately 300 Callaway County residents in organizing against proposed renewable energy expansions they fear are taking advantage of high quality farmland without contributing enough to county tax streams.
The Facebook group she runs, “Callaway County Missouri Commercial Solar Invasion,” has 600 followers.
“It’s too fast,” Burns said about planned solar farms and a 40-mile high voltage energy transmission line. “I would not say that I’m against green energy, I just think that the government subsidies have caused companies to want to get these subsidies, and they’re pushing it and going as fast as they can without considering the safety and the environment.”
Burns, among others, is drawing connections between the two solar projects and a proposed expansion to Grain Belt Express, an 800-mile renewable energy transmission line that will span three states and carry wind energy from Kansas and distribute it to communities until its end at the Illinois-Indiana border.
The high voltage transmission line’s final route was approved by Missouri’s Public Service Commission in 2019 and Invenergy, the company that took ownership of building the line soon after, became a public utility that expects to provide $12.8 million in annual energy savings for 39 municipal utilities across Missouri.
The Guardians will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday, November 4 at Delmonico’s Steakhouse, 2951 Old Orchard Road, Jackson. It is free and open to the public.
The Guardians of Liberty in Southeast Missouri is a non-partisan, community-based, grassroots organization that functions as a liberty focused group at the local level. We stand together united for liberty to ENGAGE, EDUCATE, AND EMPOWER citizens in order to preserve the blessings of liberty as secured by the Missouri and United States Constitutions and other founding documents.
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