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(MSC News)--The Trump administration has cancelled a promised $5 billion loan for a green-energy transmission line across Kansas and several other states.
The Grain Belt Express is an 800-mile, 5,000-megawatt transmission line intended to carry solar- and wind-generated power from Kansas to Indiana.
The line would pass through several northeast Kansas counties—including Marshall, Nemaha, Brown and Doniphan.
The Kansas Reflector reports the U.S. Department of Energy has yanked the loan, saying “it is not critical for the federal government to have a role in supporting the project.”
Activists say the termination of the loan is a direct shot at green energy.
The spokesperson for the company building the line, Chicago-based Invenergy, said the project is open to private financing after losing the federal loan.
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