Wind companies fight bill

Wind energy developers are trying to kill to a bill that prohibits them from issuing confidential leases to landowners. The prohibition is in a bill that many legislators say is needed to keep industry representatives from taking advantage of landowners who are at a disadvantage when confronted with a 44-page lease and, sometimes, high-pressure company tactics. The companies build wind turbines on the leased plots.

By: By Janell Cole, N.D. Capitol Bureau, The Jamestown Sun