Share 'Abandoned Eyesores Almost Certain to Proliferate Across the Maine Countryside Unless We Stop Them'

Wind companies do everything they can to get as much of the money generated by a wind project upfront or as frontloaded as possible. They also avoid at all costs buying the land, because ownership comes with responsibilities. Instead, they typically lease the land for their monstrosities so that when they've wrung it for money, they can simply abandon the turbines, leaving the unwitting lessor…