Wildabeest
Well-known member
I’m guessing the reason the little hamlet of Cut Bank has an international airport has something to do with all of those pumpers out there…You will have to type slower for me.
What folks hate them? I assume you are referring to environmental folks and not the landowners that are the decision maker on their own property. I looked into landowner compensation and it looks like $8-16k per year per turbine based on MW produced. I don't know if that is a lot or not, but the landowner gets to make that decision. Seems like a fair offset for surface disturbance.
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I always felt bad for the landowner in split estate instances where the energy developer made the decisions where fluid mineral surface disturbances would be on private land. That being said, it made my NEPA analysis very easy.
View attachment 396496If anyone is bored today, zoom into more detail in this area, approximately 7 miles west of the previous map. Pretty good example of fluid mineral development on native habitat. If you look at this map and think, "man, that is a lot of roads". Just zoom in please.
