Kansas legislature hearing bills that would ban solar and wind farms in half of the state

Gov. Laura Kelly said construction of Inevergy’s new Grain Belt Express transmission line to carry wind-driven electricity to Missouri, Illinois and Indiana can create about 1,000 permanent jobs in Kansas. This image is of Evergy's Flat Ridge Wind Farm near Medicine Lodge. (Submitted/Kansas Reflector)

 

The Kansas legislature is considering three bills that would ban wind and solar farms in more than half of the counties in Kansas if they were to become law.

The Kansas Reflector reports one of the bills would ban all such renewable energy farms on land not zoned for industrial use.

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