The US's new economic stimulus plan is providing billions of dollars towards the doubling of the nation's supply of renewable energy; environmentalist groups, however, are opposing the plan to build new transmission lines intended to carry this 
renewable energy.

Thousands of kilometres of new transmission lines are being planned to move power from the Great Plains spanning central America and south-eastern California's Mojhave Desert to the nations' energy hungry cities.

Environmentalist group Industrial Wind Action executive director Lisa Linowes says that by establishing new transmission lines, the US is needlessly industrialising the
remote American landscape at the expense of its local residents.

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