Enel to pay millions, remove Osage County wind farm

KGWS ^ | 12/19/24 | Public Radio Tulsa

[DallasBiff]

A federal judge has ruled that the owner of an Osage County wind farm, Osage Wind LLC, must pay over $300,000 in damages, millions in attorney fees, and remove 84 turbines and supporting structures by December 2025.

The case, which has been ongoing for more than a decade, centers around the wind farm's failure to obtain necessary permits from the Osage Minerals Council.

Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves ruled in 2023 that Enel, the parent company, had committed trespass by extracting minerals from the Osage illegally

[DallasBiff]

Was building the useless but politically correct windmills, a ruse to get the real money in the minerals.

Nah, radial democrats would never do that./s

[rktman]

Winning! Thank you sir may I have another?!

[Honorary Serb]

Ecocruxes!

[Billthedrill]

Grifters gotta grift.

[jeffc]

Millions to attorneys that get a return of only $300K?

[PeterPrinciple]

would appear they did not get a gravel permit for fouindation fill.

only charged $260,000 for the gravel

[KarlInOhio]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/enel-ordered-remove-osage-wind-farm-after-more-ten-years-litigation discussed this more. Apparently the mineral rights were separated from the surface ownership in 1906 and the Osage tribe retained mineral rights no matter who owned the surface. White man should have brought his own gravel in.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Enel, the parent company, had committed trespass by extracting minerals from the Osage illegally...pay more than $240,000 for the extracted minerals and more than $66,000 in trespass damages.

That is a trivially small amount of extracted minerals. They couldn't have set up much of a mining operation to remove that amount of mineral.

The "Osage Minerals Council" is part of the Osage Nation. Sounds like the Italians were trying to screw the Native Americans out of their mineral rights.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A bit more...

The Osage Nation Reservation consists of approximately 1,475,000 acres and is otherwise known as Osage County, Oklahoma. The Osage Tribe owns all mineral rights located within Osage County and has an income from all oil and gas found in Osage County.

[discostu]

And leave. I think that’s the important part, not letting the door hit their butt on the way out.

[Vaduz]

Nah, radial democrats would never do that./s

Indeed it’s how everyone of their plans work always a buck tied to it or a legal office post.

Paybacks is the name of the scams

[Vendome]

I think I may have met two of the guys on the back row.

I worked with Marth Moore, the first Miss Indian USA and she introduced me to The Five Civilized Tribes and took me to the chiefs of the Osage and Pawhuska.

She was OMG beautiful and carried herself with a certain poise...

[minnesota_bound]

There’s Nothing ‘Green’ About Building a Wind Turbine
https://rumble.com/v6173je-theres-nothing-green-about-building-a-wind-turbine.html?e9s=src_v1_upp

[deport]

[catnipman]

if i remember correctly, the claim was that the material excavated for the massive windmill foundation structures was “extracted minerals” obtained without a mineral extraction permit and therefore was an illegal extraction of minerals ...

[Sequoyah101]

I am still waiting on my share of that nickel a ton for all the sand taken out of the Arkansas River since forever. I expect a long wait. Like forever. Just went by Muskogee today and saw three plants stacking up my birthright accumulation.