This news story says that a utility wind and solar developer has created a joint venture with an oil well shares company to build industrial scale wind, solar, energy storage and hydrogen assets on 1.5 million acres across West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Sounds great, right? If they could find owners of 1.5 million acres who want to lease their property for wind and solar. In this day and age, that doesn't seem likely. Many landowners who have leased property for renewable development, as well as their neighbors, have found out that living and working in the middle of an industrial energy facility isn't exactly the peaceful paradise the fast-talking salesman assured you it would be. Word travels fast on the internet, and the horror stories of impacted landowners have convinced new landowners not to lease. And even when they do lease, the surrounding community oftentimes creates project-wrecking opposition groups that cancel project plans. What's a renewable energy developer to do when it simply can't find any new land to lease for projects?
Sounds great, right? If they could find owners of 1.5 million acres who want to lease their property for wind and solar. In this day and age, that doesn't seem likely. Many landowners who have leased property for renewable development, as well as their neighbors, have found out that living and working in the middle of an industrial energy facility isn't exactly the peaceful paradise the fast-talking salesman assured you it would be. Word travels fast on the internet, and the horror stories of impacted landowners have convinced new landowners not to lease. And even when they do lease, the surrounding community oftentimes creates project-wrecking opposition groups that cancel project plans. What's a renewable energy developer to do when it simply can't find any new land to lease for projects?
The Chrysalis Energy partnership will focus across 1.5 million acres of mainly contiguous, rights-owned land within Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia.
See those words "rights-owned" land? That's when a company owns some "rights" to your land, such as mineral rights. But mineral rights only cover things like oil and gas below the surface of your property. If you're unlucky enough to own a piece of property where the mineral rights have been severed and sold to someone else, you may one day find a oil company drilling on your property, and there's nothing you can do about it. When a company owns your mineral rights, they also have the right to use the surface of your property for the purpose of extracting the minerals they own.
There's some really cagey wordsmithing going on here... 1.5 million acres of mainly contiguous rights-owned land across three states? I just can't fathom that this oil well shares company has managed to buy the surface rights to 1.5 million contiguous acres across 3 states and this is the first time anyone has decided that it is "news". But, perhaps the oil well shares company has managed to patch together mineral rights for that many acres. But how does that give them "rights" to construct energy infrastructure on the surface to produce energy from the sky? What kind of flim-flam is this? Is this an effort to bully surface landowners to allow the takeover of their properties to build industrial energy infrastructure that can harvest trillions of dollars of new renewable energy subsidies? Is this an effort to conscript private property to produce "green" energy?
How much is 1.5 million acres?
There's some really cagey wordsmithing going on here... 1.5 million acres of mainly contiguous rights-owned land across three states? I just can't fathom that this oil well shares company has managed to buy the surface rights to 1.5 million contiguous acres across 3 states and this is the first time anyone has decided that it is "news". But, perhaps the oil well shares company has managed to patch together mineral rights for that many acres. But how does that give them "rights" to construct energy infrastructure on the surface to produce energy from the sky? What kind of flim-flam is this? Is this an effort to bully surface landowners to allow the takeover of their properties to build industrial energy infrastructure that can harvest trillions of dollars of new renewable energy subsidies? Is this an effort to conscript private property to produce "green" energy?
How much is 1.5 million acres?
"The sheer magnitude of the land position is remarkable, likely the single largest private land inventory in PJM and comprising 1/1000th of the entire continental US acreage.
The company has a "map" on their website that supposedly shows this. It's just a map of the entire states of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The entire states! How did some oil well company buy three entire states and nobody blinked an eye?
If you live in an area where it is common to sever surface rights from mineral or other land rights, you might want to roll up the welcome mat and find a good lawyer.
What if "rights-owned" land can now be conscripted and covered with wind and solar installations without the owner's permission? Without further compensation? If you make your living off the land, pay close attention to this debacle as it unfolds.
There's very little written about this "joint venture" and pretty much nothing about this 1.5 million acres they supposedly own the "rights" to. If it was just a friendly renewables developer who wanted to lease new land and pay the owner to do so, there would be no reason for the oil well shares company to be involved. But...
If you live in an area where it is common to sever surface rights from mineral or other land rights, you might want to roll up the welcome mat and find a good lawyer.
What if "rights-owned" land can now be conscripted and covered with wind and solar installations without the owner's permission? Without further compensation? If you make your living off the land, pay close attention to this debacle as it unfolds.
There's very little written about this "joint venture" and pretty much nothing about this 1.5 million acres they supposedly own the "rights" to. If it was just a friendly renewables developer who wanted to lease new land and pay the owner to do so, there would be no reason for the oil well shares company to be involved. But...
Within the scope of the JV, OYA and OWS will develop, construct, jointly own and operate an extensive portfolio of renewable energy assets across OWS’s current land inventory.
"Land inventory." OWS owns 1.5 million acres of land? Or just some "rights" to that land?
Something here just gives me the shivers...
Something here just gives me the shivers...
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