The Kansas Corporation Commission told Evergy this week that a proposed 133-mile transmission line can move ahead through Sedgwick and Sumner County — but not along a proposed path that would have traveled through native grasslands in the Flint Hills.
“The Commission takes seriously any activity that has the potential to permanently and adversely affect the Flint Hills or other unique ecological regions of the state,” the commission said in an order filed Tuesday.
The order puts a pause on a major transmission project that is intended to bring high-voltage power lines through hundreds of miles of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri…