Susan Burns, founder of Mid-Missouri Landowners Alliance

When Green Belt Express announced they were putting massive electric lines through North Callaway and Boone Counties, other national green-power corporations came into neighborhoods to access farm land for solar and wind "farms" to ship electricity to big cities in the east. These properties are expected to take land out of farming forever but Susan Burns and Mid-Missouri Landowners Alliance are fighting back. The issue has split rural communities that are unprepared for the problems of massive electrical transmission and already worn out by other big industries moving in.