Siting Renewables and Transmission Infrastructure on Fee Lands: What Land Trusts Need to Know
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About This Practical Pointer
As the transition to a clean energy system accelerates, land trusts are evaluating siting renewables and transmission infrastructure on land that they own. This pointer offers tips for evaluating issues such as conflicts between conservation values and purposes and renewable siting, size and scale, mission, tax issues and existing encumbrances.
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