Opinion: A Fair Cut of Wind Energy Pie

August 19th, 2009 • Filed Under
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August 17, 2009 by Ken Casner in Casper Star-Tribune

The symposium will also create perspectives for the legislative branches to drum up new laws, along with revenues for Wyoming. In turn the trade-off will be right-of-way easements and more access to state and federal land. Wyoming Wind Corridors will produce the energy, and like all that is produced here, that energy will be sent out on the National Electrical Grid system. Each company online will receive a cut of the Wyoming wind energy pie. Therefore once again Wyoming residents will hold out the coffers’ bags, getting the least for the best Wyoming has to offer.

The Wind Energy Symposium was a great idea for the industry and Wyoming held at the University of Wyoming. It was booked with the intent of developing that green energy in Wyoming and how much diversity wind energy will create.

The symposium will also create perspectives for the legislative branches to drum up new laws, along with revenues for Wyoming. In turn the trade-off will be right-of-way easements and more access to state and federal land.

Wyoming Wind Corridors will produce the energy, and like all that is produced here, that energy will be sent out on the National Electrical Grid system. Each company online will receive a cut of the Wyoming wind energy pie.

Therefore once again Wyoming residents will hold out the coffers’ bags, getting the least for the best Wyoming has to offer.

A famous circus man ( P.T. Barnum) once said, “there is a sucker born every day,” and Wyoming for the most part fits that scenario in wind energy.

Take the Pathfinder Ranch. Just how much energy revenue will just this ranch produce? According to the Star-Tribune article, “one” wind turbine is capable of producing enough energy for 300 homes. The Pathfinder Ranch alone can install 2,700 of these turbines. That alone equals enough power for 810,000 homes from Wyoming to homes within the United States.

The revenue speculation on just this ranch sending electricity to these homes could look something like this based on the average usage of $65 per household a month: $52,650,000. Now times that for a year and that alone could reach $631,800,000 in electrical revenue.

Today the rumbling in Carbon County is that as many as 10,000 of these turbines could be placed upon the open spaces of the county. Even the Pathfinder Energy company would like to have an agreement for at least a million acres in Wyoming.

Granted Jeff Meyer has a great vision, but he fails to state a lease is business. No matter the type of lease, whether hunting or wind energy, each produces revenue off the natural resources of Wyoming within Wyoming boundaries.

Therefore Wyoming residents should receive compensation for their products, for it is called diversity by taxation with true representation.

Web Link: http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/08/17/editorial/letters/b311ae567df1dfe1872576140020fbcf.txt

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