Enel is ordered to tear down wind farm in the U.S. and to pay for damages

[Redaktion]

The ruling concludes more than 10 years of litigation and orders the company to dismantle the 150-megawatt wind farm, which spans 8,400 acres.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Enel-is-ordered-to-tear-down-wind-farm-in-the-U-S-and-to-pay-for-damages.937644.0.html

[Alan Jeffers]

Why What is point reason take down ?

[Jay McHue]

Why What is point reason take down ?

They didn't have permission to be there and were illegally mining on Native American tribal land.

[Who cares]

Not understanding.what were they mining? They had a lease allowing them to put in the wind farm.

[Who caresac]

Actually do care it's just I couldn't find a name that wasn't reserved

[A]

Why What is point reason take down ?

It says in the article, they got permission for using the surface (to build a wind farm), but not below ground. They used the windfarm as a pretext to use the land for mining which they didn't have permission to do. So they are being evicted off the land.

[Osage member]

If one Rock is turned over the tribe own the rights to that rock and everything else within the ground.

[Okiedirt]

The only relevant rocks I can see in your argument are the rocks in your head.

[Jonathan D]

When I had first heard the story after the ruling, alot of the reason was the courts ruled the mineral right extend vertical..to my understandingthe biggest issue was because tribe was not being paid mineral rights.

[Steve Schneider]

It's time to end Indian reservations and require all persons of Indian descent to be fully integrated into American society!

[sirkeng1]

Idiotic

[Michelle]

No one, no company or individual has the right to do what this company did.  If they were mining, all profits from the mining should also be paid to the land owners.

[Frances H]

Entel was asked to get a lease 10years ago and continued to ask them,they ignored the Osages and continued to do what they wanted using their land to mine rocks and build foundations under surface for wind turbines going against the US government dept of interior and sovereign rights of Osage Nation, following rules getting lease from tribe would have been simple,ignored request to lease.

[Dale Kaup]

Unlike most tribes in Oklahoma the Osage actually purchased their land and the mineral rights to that land.


That's not to say however that the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee and other tribes that had to walk to Oklahoma had it easy.

[VPG]

It's time to end Indian reservations and require all persons of Indian descent to be fully integrated into American society!

Maybe it's time for the invaders of Native American lands to integrate into the Native American society. They were here first