In the wake of one more rejection this morning from the Missouri Public Service Commission, the company trying to develop a high-voltage transmission line known as the “Grain Belt Express” to ferry new wind energy from the Midwest to the eastern U.S. has a new tool in its kit: former Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon.

Clean Line Energy Partners, which has run into numerous obstacles in Missouri in the course of trying to develop a long-distance, high-voltage transmission line across several states, has hired Nixon as a legal adviser to guide it through the next legal hurdle.

Source: Former Missouri governor takes on transmission developer’s legal challenge | Midwest Energy News