Billionaire investor Philip Anschutz owns a total of 176,000 hectares of land in several western US states, according to the 2019 Land Report. Anschutz started accumulating enormous tracts of oil-rich land during the early 1970s, but has since turned his efforts to the renewable sector. He is currently developing what will be the largest, and most expensive, wind farm in North America.

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