A little late to the game...this should have been considered BEFORE the artificial boom in wind farms.
I believe Kalifornia has already dealt with this issue...IIRC, companies are required to post a bond to pay for removal, before the turbines are built.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
-2- A Colorado school district is suing social media companies claiming the platforms have harmed kids and left schools to pick up the pieces.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4161641/posts
Amazing, where are the horror stories, I have never seen any.
This is a heck of a thing for people to never have heard of.
Then these companies should have no problem doing so themselves.
Good riddance...wind turbines cause local/global warming (downwind) and “climate change”:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02089-2
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-wind-power-could-contribute-warming-climate
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0406930101
I’ve been saying for years that wind companies need to post surety bonds with a fiduciary company before being allowed to build these monstrosities. That way the bond money will be available to restore the sites after the company goes bankrupt (which they surely all will do). Coal companies have had to post such bonds forever before opening a new strip mine. The money is used to reclaim and restore the land to its former character after mining operations are done.
Colorado Congressional Reps Colorado’s U.S. Reps Buck, Lamborn and Hageman have their hearts in the right place, but are going about this all wrong. Their proposed bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to “require energy companies remove decommissioned wind turbines from leased land as a condition of receiving federal tax credits.”
But what happens when the wind companies go bankrupt and no company exists to pay for removal? I can see all the wind operators (except the large utilities) declaring bankruptcy to avoid this downstream cost.
Their proposal is a half-ass measure that will be easy to ignore as there are no financial teeth in it. How in the world can they require companies to remove decommissioned turbines before they are even built?
The ONLY way to properly do this is require the companies to post the surety bond for the full removal cost BEFORE they receive federal tax credits and/or BEFORE the project gets permitted.
Jon Cary should be required to remove them.
require energy companies remove decommissioned wind turbines from leased land as a condition of receiving federal tax credits.
“The American Wind Energy Association, representing wind power generators, assures the public that owners are contractually obligated to take them down at their own cost and that their salvage value will pay for the cost of doing so,” according to a 2020 article by the Washington Times.