Right. Something like that you CANNOT easily get rid of. People who think otherwise don’t know what they are talking about. Here are some o the things that need to be done to reclaim and remediate a wind farm:
Someone would have to safely clear, clean, and remove:
each wind turbine generator, each substation, all liquids contained in a generator or substation, and each installed overhead power or communications line;
each tower and pad-mount transformer foundation from the ground at least three feet from the grade of the affected land; and
each buried cable installed in the ground at least three feet below the grade of the affected land.
The agreement would have to provide that, at the request of the landowner, the grantee would clear, clean, and remove each road constructed on the property. If reasonable, the agreement also would have to provide that the grantee, at the request of the landowner, would remove all rocks over 12 inches in diameter excavated during the decommissioning process, return the property to a tillable state using certain methods, and return the surface as near as possible to the same condition as before the grantee dug holes.
For the removal of towers, pad-mount transformers, buried cables, roads, and excavated rocks, the grantee would have to ensure that holes created by the removal were filled with topsoil.
Expensive is not enough of a word for it.