Alliance updates area land owners, farmers on pursuit to stop RICL

DIKE — The movement to stop a controversial power corridor appears to be gaining momentum. That was the message shared by Preservation of Rural Iowa Alliance president Carolyn Sheridan last week during a community meeting in Dike.
At a meeting that drew approximately 75 people, Sheridan said recent decisions in both Iowa and Illinois support her group’s cause, though there is still work that must be done to stop the proposed Rock Island Clean Line (RICL) which would run from near Sanborn in northwest Iowa to near Morris, Ill.
“It is most important that we keep voluntary easements low,” Sheridan said.
Locally the line would pass through northern and eastern Grundy County as well as western and southern Franklin County, the southwest corner of Butler County and southern Black Hawk County.

For more of this story see the Jan. 22 Grundy Register.