The US is a huge exception, your power grid is from the age when cowboys roamed the lands. Literally. There was a huge fire that was caused by a power line slo

The US is a huge exception, your power grid is from the age when cowboys roamed the lands. Literally. There was a huge fire that was caused by a power line slowly mechanically wearing down its connector. OVER A HUNDRED YEARS. Nobody bothered to check or replace it. Also you have exceptions for oil and gas pipelines. 1-2 permits on a high level and the land owners can pound sand if they complain. For power lines you need levels on a dozen different levels and even after that everyone who can even see the power poles has the irrefutable right to veto said wire or at the very least sue and slow it down to a crawl...