Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

Publication Citation

54 Environmental Law Reporter 10654 (2024)

Abstract

This Article offers proposals for better engagements, relationships, and deals with local communities contemplating wind farms. Because the rapid expansion of wind energy to date has exhausted the first-mover rural communities, the promise of wind energy depends on reluctant rural communities that may require the legal, relational, and policy innovations proposed herein if they are to grant their consent to future wind farms and participate in the renewable energy transformation. The proposals herein are the result of empirical research exploring how occupants of rural spaces have reacted to wind developer’s strategies in their communities and how local communities have employed legal mechanisms to welcome—or, more often, reject— wind farms in their home counties. While the field work informing this Article was based in Indiana, our findings have broad applicability.

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