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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Birdistheword" data-source="post: 4218190" data-attributes="member: 53965"><p>When they put them in near where I used to live there were several things I noticed that were less than desirable. 1. From a land use standpoint, they will be ruining a significant portion of your surface habitat or tillable acres depending on what you do. That land will be unrecoverable for at least 20years depending on the agreement. 2. Federal regulations regarding things like site disturbance (i.e. don't shoot a rattle snake there) will apply to your land. 3. Follow the money. Where I was the project over ran objections because not only did the land owners receive guaranteed income, the county commissioners received a large annual payment for 20yrs and the school board received a large payment for 20yrs. Those two influences caused a lot of problems for the county. 4. There is subsidy to build them but at least at that time there was none to sustain or repair them. And 5. The stupid towers fell over at random because the engineering wasn't right. Nobody got hurt in our case but then they sat there causing decreased usable acreage and a hazard for an undetermined length of time. I would fight hard to keep them not only off my property but out of my county and state if it was possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>