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It's an incentive to accept wind farms in places where they can go within the regulations. Essentially it's a threat - if people reject wind farms far away from them, then they might end up with wind farms much closer.

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Sounds like mob extortion. "It'd be a shame if we had to build a windmill in your backyard, so just support it over there, or else!"

It's extortion in the same way that "obey the law or go to prison" is extortion.

If the law is a moving goalpost that depends on the color of the sky, then yes, it's the textbook definition of extortion.

Well, except that the excerpted line says they plan to waive the regulations (i.e. change the law) in the event of non-compliance...

So? They are just excercising their democratically awarded power.

The expected value clearly is different. The mob primarily destroys and extracts and at most provides a token amount of real protection. The government provides advance warning for them to handle things on their own without further intervention and pursues a net-positive goal of reducing emissions and dependency on foreign fuels.

It's not a threat, it's a statement of preferred outcomes with a "we truly prefer not to do this" fallback in case the preferred solution is not achieved on their own terms.

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