The district secured $17 million in bonds based on the expected wind farm revenue, $500,000 annually, for desperately needed new high school and middle school facilities.
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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the removal of a wind farm in Osage County and set a trial for damages in a win for the Osage Nation and its Mineral Council, which, along with the federal government, have been fighting the erection of the turbines for more than a decade.
Years of mismanagement and declining oil production have left Osage Nation with a higher concentration of abandoned wells than anywhere else in the country.