A Farmer Asks, "What Have I Done?" After Permitting Wind Turbines On His Land
A Farmer Asks, "What Have I Done?" After Permitting Wind Turbines On His Land
Not asking the right questions is always costly, sometimes very costly
This was forwarded to us and was posted by someone who will remain anonymous.
The source has worked with us before on previous stories and is extremely trustworthy, this is all we can share at this point.
A farmer writes,
Now each morning when I awake, I pray, and then ask myself,
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
I am involved with the Blue Sky/Green Field Wind Energy Center project in N.E. Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
I am also a successful farmer who cherishes his land.
My father taught me how to farm, to be a steward of my fields, and by doing so, to produce far better crop production.
As I view this year’s crops, my eyes feast on a most bountiful supply of corn and soybeans.
And then my eyes focus again on the trenches and road scars leading to the turbine foundations.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
In 2003, the wind energy company made their first contact with us.
A $2000 “incentive” started the process of winning us over, a few of us at a time.
The city salesman would throw out their nets, like fishermen trawling for fish.
Their incentive “gift” lured some of us in at first.
Then the salesmen would leave and let us talk with other farmers.
When the corporate salesman returned, there would be more of us ready to sign up, farmers had heard about the money to be made.
Perhaps because we were successful farmers, we were the leaders and their best salesman.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Sometime in 2004 or 2005, we signed $4000 turbine contracts allowing them to “lease” our land for their needs.
Our leases favored the company, but what did we know back then?
Nobody knew what we were doing.
Nobody realized all the changes that would occur which we would have no control.
How often my friends and I have made that statement?
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
I watched stakes being driven in the fields and men using GPS monitors to place markers here and there.
When the cats and graders started tearing 22-foot-wide roads into my fields, the physical changes started to impact not only me and my family but unfortunately, my dear friends and neighbors.
Later, a 4-foot by 2-foot-wide trench started diagonally across my field.
A field already divided by their road was now being divided again by the cables running to a substation.
It was now making one large field into 4 smaller, irregularly shaped plots.
Other turbine hosts also complained about their fields being subdivided or multi-cable trenches requiring more land.
Roads were cut in using anywhere from 1000 feet to over ½ mile of land to connect necessary locations.
We soon realized that the company places roads and trenches where they would benefit the company most, not the landowner.
One neighbor’s access road is right next to some of his outbuildings.
Another right next to his fence line.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
At a wind company dinner presented for the farmers hosting the turbines, we were repeatedly told - nicely and indirectly - to stay away from the company work sites once they started.
I watched as my friends’ faces showed the same concern as I had, but none of us spoke out.
Months later, when I approached a crew putting in lines where they promised me they would definitely not go, a representative told me I could not be here.
He insisted that I leave.
The line went in.
The company had the right.
I had signed the lease.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Grumbling started almost immediately after we agreed to a 2% yearly increase on our 30-year lease contracts.
Some felt we should have held out for 10.
What farmer would lock in the price of corn over the next 5 years, yet alone lock one in at 2% yearly for 30 years?
Then rumors leaked that other farmers received higher yearly rates, so now contracts varied.
The fast-talking city folk had successfully delivered their plan.
Without regard for our land, we were allowing them to come in and spoil it.
All of the rocks we labored so hard to pick in our youth were replaced in a few hours by miles of roads packed hard with 10 inches of large breaker rock.
Costly tiling, we installed to improve drainage has now been cut to pieces by company trenching machines.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Each night a security team rides down our roads checking the foundation sites.
They are checking for vandals and thieves.
Once, when I had ventured with guests to show them foundation work, security stopped us and asked me, while standing on my own property, what I was doing there.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Now, at social functions, we can clearly see the huge division this has created among community members.
Suddenly, there are strong-sided discussions and heated words between friends and yes, between relatives about wind turbines.
Perhaps this is a greater consequence than the harm caused to my land!
Life is short and my friendships are precious.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
I tried, as did some of the other farmers, to get out of our contracts but we had signed a binding contract and a contract is a contract.
If you are considering placing wind turbines on your property, I strongly recommend that you please reconsider.
Study the issues.
Think of all the harm versus the benefits to your land and, in the future, to your children’s land by allowing companies to lease your land for turbines.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
PLEASE DO NOT DO WHAT I HAVE DONE!
Advisory to ALL Land Owners - Farmers and Otherwise
Knowledge is your best weapon and no one said you need to be a walking encyclopedia to be knowledgeable.
Tap into those that have the knowledge you need - and learn to ask the right questions.
Thomas Jefferson wrote our constitution, but he did not do it alone - he conferred with many others and they with him.
You need to do the same.
Sign NOTHING until a lawyer has had a chance to become familiar with your situation, which means bring one in early.
There are plenty of organizations willing to assist you find the legal help you need, you just need to keep digging as no one has written the book on this, so why not let it be you that does so?
Discover other areas of the country that have already dealt with the company that is approaching you as well as others who have been through the same scenario with a different company - find out what worked, what didn’t.
Above all else, pray and pray in groups - the Good Book always provides answers that we never saw before we are stressed out.
An Alarming Discovery in Queensland Australia
Alarming footage of the discarded remains of a wind farm in Queensland, Australia.
Contrary to the climate scam propaganda regurgitated by Net Zero zealots, and the trillion-dollar "renewable" energy industry, wind turbines are not renewable or "green" in the slightest.
Not only are these monstrosities a blight on the countryside when they're in operation, killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of bats and birds in the process, every single year - once their working life of just 15-20 years is up, they cannot be recycled, so they end up being dumped in nature, or landfill sites.
Given the $300,000,000 cost of the Bly Sky / Green Field project, and the average life expectancy of a wind farm to be 10-15 years, that comes to 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 overhead cost per year - WITHOUT maintenance and parts replacement costs.
There are 88 turbines on this wind farm meaning each costs $3,409,090 just to install.
Supposedly this is renewable energy - what gets renewed with the investment?
What is biodegradable about ANY wind turbine?
How many centuries or even millenniums does it take for a wind turbine to turn to dust?
Definitions, Hazards, and Costs
Fossil
Truthfully, fossil fuel is a myth, seriously. The term fossil fuel was created by John D. Rockefeller to create the concept of scarcity. Why? Oil is the 3rd most abundant natural resource, right behind water and air - and it is not created from fossils. So JDR needed to create a false sense of scarcity so to demand the prices he wanted for oil. Look up the fossil digs and you find, on average, fossils are found less than 1/2-mile down on average (the deepest dig was nearly 1.4 miles down). The other aspect about fossils is they are scattered and found at various depths - to produce sufficient oil for an oil well, there would have to be a LOT of fossils supposedly crushed into liquid form and, so far, there has yet to be any finding that has an abundance of fossils to produce a barrel of oil never mind millions of barrels.
How many feet down does an oil rig have to go to find oil? That will vary in depth just as much - just as water is found in various depths, so is oil. The 2008 average for an oil well was nearly 6000 feet. The deepest oil well is more than 40,000 feet in Russia - well below any fossils found, so how did the oil get there??
So how does the earth create its oil?
Hydrocarbons,
Research from the last decade has found that hydrocarbons are synthesized abiotically (sunlight, temperature, wind patterns, and precipitation).
Oil is produced chemically from carbon found in Earth's mantle; the product of this process is a bounty of natural gas and the building blocks of oil products.
This is one of the reasons Earth Science was removed from the Middle and High school curriculum - they didn’t want you to know this…
So there is no scarcity and the government lobbyists control the price.
Hazards?
Most of it is localized and the earth has shown a resounding ability to bounce back from whatever hazards have occurred - way lot quicker than any of the hazards created from renewable energy, as we note below.
Renewable
What is renewable about solar panels, solar towers, and wind turbines?
None of them decay quickly - more like centuries if not millennium before they return to dust.
Hazards are found when they are trashed - solar panels and solar towers cannot be dismantled at least very toxic materials and liquids end up everywhere, wind turbines catch on fire, and take down birds (sometimes by droves).
All have a concise utility life of 10-15 years if you are fortunate, you may get 25 years out of solar panels. But then what? You have a pile of toxic waste…
Maintenance costs can become astronomical particularly with wind towers as parts are damn expensive and usually very dangerous to replace.
Solar panels and towers crack, get únctured by hail and wind storms, and overheat. Solar panel farms overheat the air above the farm, kill birds and animals, and destroy plant life.
What is so renewable about solar panels, solar towers, and wind turbines?
Nothing.
Meanwhile, nothing about any so-called renewable energy has a persistent and consistent energy flow - many wind turbine farms have been discovered to be using diesel generators to keep the turbines spinning.
Seriously, they are trying to prop up an inefficient source of energy as reliable by getting you to focus on the rainbows instead of the realities.
Alternative
Nuclear and geothermal are practically on opposite ends - geothermal is not radioactive but both are very hot to handle.
There are maintenance costs for both, and geothermal is a lot less than nuclear.
Nuclear is relatively new, geothermal has been around since the 1800s (if you don’t think so, you‘ve been reading the wrong books).
Toxic waste from nuclear energy is not easy to deal with either, the worst of all so-called new energy sources.
Who is Driving All This?
Lobbyists.
Focus on them and the companies giving them the big bucks to keep their product out front.
Be sure to use your diesel truck and oversized car, pickup truck, SUV, and/or camper while doing so too…
Let them know what you know…
There is nothing green in green energy save what they want in their bank accounts.
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