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He also said that if there is a way to ensure that the transmission lines and towers are not visible from a home, that would be done. He said all potential routes have been examined closely, and the cooperative would choose the one that is least intrusive.
Asked about Evans’ concern that transmission lines would interfere with cell-phone reception, Brown said he has used his cell phone while standing beneath the lines. He said workers at the cooperative’s substations, where there is a greater potential for interference, rely on cell phones to communicate. Setting precedent Another opposition organizer is Gary Cooley, who lives four miles east of Columbus. “We’re not really getting a benefit from it,” he said, adding that county residents nonetheless would see negative results. Cooley has been distributing literature to his rural neighbors informing them of the public hearing. “We’re against it,” he said. “We’re paying the price without seeing any benefits. It’s going to have an effect on property values. We can’t build anything when those lines go up.” He also said that since the maps produced by KAMO show several potential routes, property owners don’t know if they are the ones who would be affected. “They’re not going to know until it’s too late,” Cooley said. Gatewood, the state lawmaker, made his opposition to the project known in a Feb. 7 letter to the KCC. “This proposed route offers no benefits to the state of Kansas through supplying power, job creation nor substantial tax benefits,” Gatewood wrote. “What this does provide is more environmental concerns to an area already suffering from years of neglect of our ecosystem.” Gatewood wrote that approving KAMO’s proposal would set a precedent of allowing out-of-state companies to set up infrastructure in Kansas against the will of state residents. Though Gatewood’s letter didn’t specifically request a public hearing, he said he was instrumental in getting the public hearing scheduled. He said neither KAMO nor Associated Electric has any customers in Kansas, so they shouldn’t be considered state utilities. Resistance? According to another document on file with the KCC, KAMO officials didn’t see the need for Wednesday’s public hearing. Glenda Cafer, an attorney for KAMO and Associated Electric, in a March 27 document, requested that KCC officials better define the purpose of the public hearing and the issues the cooperatives should be prepared to address. 
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