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To: The Iceman Cometh

During a recent battle with Big Wind, we learned that the property owners signing the leases were under a gag order to keep others from knowing what the lease agreements were.

A prominent farmer in our area told me that he wanted no wind turbines on his properties, but was willing to lease them a 60 foot easement across the back of his farm for underground transmission lines.

When his lawyer got to looking over the lease agreement, he found that doing so would grant the developer partial control over the entire farm, not just the 60 feet, should they so choose.

He got it changed, and then moved miles away from the project


12 posted on 02/11/2016 6:37:44 PM PST by digger48
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lease them a 60 foot easement across the back of his farm for underground transmission lines.

Certainly dangerous given that Big Wind could likely seek adverse possession in the courts if you wanted out of the lease, legally. A landowner would be buried by the attorneys and would have no choice but to renew.

14 posted on 02/11/2016 6:41:38 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (The Democrats Must Lose In November)
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