By Thom Holmes – Thom and his wife Susan live in Lincoln County where Susan is Vice Chair of the Republican party. They have both been active in political matters for many years.
Lincoln County landowners who formed the anti-wind farm group “Wind Warriors in Lincoln County” say very few landowners support the controversial Apex Energy wind farm proposed in their county.
They also say of the handful of landowners who signed leases, none actually live in Lincoln County. The group released a press release on Wednesday entitled “Encouraging Progress in 1st Year of Green Energy Battle.”
At this week’s Lincoln County Board of Commissioners meeting, it was noted that the residents of the county began taking up arms in March 2024 to eventually become the leaders of the war against wind energy which has engulfed 14 counties in the eastern part of the state also being targeted for massive Industrial Wind Turbine Complexes.
A signincant item pointed to on the timeline events over the past year was a “Public Notice on Wind Energy” approved by the Board of Commissioners in August and then mailed to rural landowners. Its intent was to inform them of the planned installation of 82 wind turbines over 600 feet tall and to encourage them to talk with their neighbors before signing a wind lease.
LEASE RECORDS
Some pretty significant results were gleaned from researching the wind leases filed for the Apex Sandstone Hills project in the County Clerk’s records over the past 12 months, including:
- In the 6 months after the “Public Notice on Wind Energy” was mailed to landowners, only 5 (Five) landowners signed wind leases.
- None of those 5 landowners who signed wind energy leases in the past 6 months live in Lincoln County… ZERO
- In the full 12 months since Apex began acquiring wind energy leases, only 2 (Two) of the landowners who have signed leases actually live in Lincoln County. These 2 leases are for only about 250 acres each.
- All of the other Apex leases signed have been by landowners who do NOT live in Lincoln County. They live in other states or large cities with little or no ties to the community.
- In relationship to the Apex project timeline provided last March, the company’s leasing efforts have currently only achieved roughly 20% of the 35,000 acre target they expected to reach before the end of 2024.
SUMMARY – There are over 1500 landowners who live in the Apex Sandstone Hills Wind project area who care about the property rights of ALL people and their neighbors in Lincoln County.
In other words, 99.9% of the people who live in the Apex Wind project area have proven by their actions thus far that they do NOT want wind turbines in their community!!
“My opinion is the Public Notice from the Board of County Commissioners that was mailed out last fall had a huge impact because most people knew nothing about the industrial wind complex being planned. Just receiving a few facts from the county leaders with a word of caution to talk with friends & neighbors before signing a wind lease helped open everyone’s eyes to what the real impacts would be.
“I’d encourage more counties to send out a Public Notice and here is the link to the one by Lincoln County:
https://lincolncountyok.org/media/view/public_notice_regarding_wind_turbines_1016.pdf “
For more info & to keep informed, our county Facebook is: No Wind Turbines Lincoln County
and our website is NoWindTurbinesLincolnCounty.org
Our phone is 918.866.2256 and I’d be pleased to talk with any who have questions.
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