OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma House Speaker-Elect Kyle Hilbert filed House Concurrent Resolution 1001 Thursday ahead of a public meeting at the Creek County Fairgrounds to discuss the establishment of a federal energy corridor across the state.

The feds want to authorize the confiscation of private property to locate high voltage electric transmission lines via eminent domain.

“The people of Oklahoma will not stand for private landowners being forced to surrender their property through federal condemnation,” said Speaker-Elect Hilbert, R-Bristow. “There are state processes in place to get community input and engagement on pending projects of this nature and I urge anyone in the path of this proposed corridor to come and let their voices be heard tonight on this issue.”

Attorney General Gentner Drummond is opposing the 645-mile electric transmission corridor proposed by the U.S. Department of Energy that would span from the Oklahoma panhandle through the Arkansas border.

The Delta-Plains National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor is one of several proposed corridors across the United States proposed to expand the nation’s power grid. It has not yet been finalized for development.

Drummond said the project threatens to harm Oklahoma property owners and offers no benefit to a net energy producing state like Oklahoma.