A federal district court lacked jurisdiction to block construction of the Cardinal-Hickory Creek power line through a Midwest wildlife refuge, the Seventh Circuit ruled, dismissing the lawsuit.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has not made a final decision on transmission developers' requests to build the $500 million, 101-mile transmission line through the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge, so the lower court could not review the decision, the court said.
“The Fish and Wildlife Service's current position on the proposed transfer line does not meet the court's criteria for finality,” Judge Frank H. Easterbrook wrote in a …
