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Bloomberg (June 6, 2013), available at www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-
05/u-k-to-share-more-wind-power-wealth-with-local-residents.html (last visited
June 6, 2013) (describing regulatory changes that expanded the U.K.'s long
standing policy of compensating host communities in connection with wind
farms).
33 See North Dakota Engrossed House Bill No. 1460 (2011).
34 Id. at § 1.1.
35 See Rebecca Beitsch, Bill Requires Wind Turbine Compensation Sharing ,
Bismarck Tribune (Feb. 7, 2011), available at http://bismarcktribune.com/news/
local/govt-and-politics/2011_session/bill-requires-wind-turbine-compensation-
sharing/article_f3a7baaa-3277-11e0-82c9-001cc4c002e0.html (last visited June
24, 2012) (quoting a wind energy lobbyist who opposed North Dakota's H.B.
1460 on the ground that requiring payments to neighbors under a compulsory
unitization statute for wind energy could drive up development costs).
36 See Muscarello , supra note 15 at 915.
37 See D. L. Elliot, et al., Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States,
ch. 2 , pp. 3-4, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (1987) (noting, for
instance, that, in the Columbia River corridor, “terrain variations cause consid-
erable local variability in the wind resource”).
38 For a more complete analysis of wind rights allocation schemes and the option-
based policy approach described in this chapter, see generally Troy A. Rule, A
Downwind View of the Cathedral: Using Rule Four to Allocate Wind Rights , 46
San Diego Law Rev. 207 (2009).