Judge Ruling That Wind Farms on Tribal Land Must Be Dismantled a ‘Win for American Property Rights’

‘This wind energy group moved in and set up these turbines without permission from the rightful owners of the property they built on’

A federal judge is ordering three companies to remove 84 turbines at a wind farm spread across 8,400 acres in Osage County in Oklahoma. Image courtesy of the Osage Nation

An Oklahoma judge has ordered the removal of a massive wind farm after declaring that it was erected without permission from the Native American tribe that holds rights to the land.

Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves ruled that the 84-turbine wind farm and its supporting infrastructure must be torn down, as its construction violated the sovereignty of the Osage Nation and required a lease from the tribe’s minerals council, which the wind farm companies had failed to obtain.