The rolling hills and butter-yellow cornfields of western New York hardly look like a battleground. This quiet corner of rural America is shingled with dairy farms and big red barns. If the peace is ever broken, it is by the chug of a tractor or the hum of a woodpecker tapping on maple; at night the stars shine as brightly as street lights. But as a growing energy dependency crisis pushes the United States towards renewable forms of fuel, energy companies and land owners are locked in a bitter battle. They are fighting over who owns the wind.