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Twelve years after it was first proposed, not one mile of Nebraska Public Power Districts R-Project, a controversial 345,000-volt transmission line that would stretch across 226 miles, has been built.

Twelve years after it was first proposed, not one mile of Nebraska Public Power Districts R-Project, a controversial 345,000-volt transmission line that would stretch across 226 miles, has been built.

Twelve years after it was first proposed, not one mile of Nebraska Public Power Districts R-Project, a controversial 345,000-volt transmission line that would stretch across 226 miles, has been built.

Twelve years after it was first proposed, not one mile of Nebraska Public Power Districts R-Project, a controversial 345,000-volt transmission line that would stretch across 226 miles, has been built.

Twelve years after it was first proposed, not one mile of Nebraska Public Power Districts R-Project, a controversial 345,000-volt transmission line that would stretch across 226 miles, has been built.

A proposed power line through the Nebraska Sandhills was meant to make the U.S. power grid more reliable.

The R-Project transmission line was first proposed in 2012, meant to make our power grid stronger. Twelve years later, not a single mile of the line has been built, stopped by environmental groups, state senators, tribes and ranchers.

Ranchers near Halsey are praying for the future, after 13,000 acres of drought-stressed grass was consumed by a wildfire.