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Need-to-Know Energy News
From Wyoming

>> Tribe Wants Restrictions on Powder River Basin
>> Energy Company Seeks to Expand Production in State
>> Empire Petroleum Acquiring O&G Lease Option
>> Wyoming #29 in State Analysis of Oil Vulnerability

13Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Cleantech Executives Warn U.S. Moving Too Slowly in Transition to Green Economy

At this week’s National Clean Energy Summit sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, executives from the renewable energy industry warned unless the federal government closes a hole in climate legislation, the energy won’t reach homes that need it.

11Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Power Industry Retreating From State –
Citing Sage Grouse Concerns

Wyoming’s wind energy boom is stalling amid growing confusion over state regulations designed to protect environmentally sensitive sage grouse and how those rules should apply to wind power projects.

9Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Horizon Wind Project Now on Hold Indefinitely

Project manager Nate Sandvig said last week that his company has decided not to submit a permit application to the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council based on the state’s recent decision not to allow wind energy development in key sage grouse habitats. “There are too many unknowns,” Sandvig said.

6Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Sage Grouse Versus Wind Development –
The Battle Has Moved into the National Spotlight

This has made the greater sage grouse — which as its name suggests is totally dependent on sage brush — an unlikely poster child for some U.S. environmentalists, in much the same way that the rare spotted owl became a symbol in the 1980s of pitched battles with the logging industry.

4Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Construction Underway on McFadden Ridge
Wind Project

The wind farm will be Rocky Mountain Power’s seventh project brought into service in Wyoming within the past two years. McFadden Ridge I is located near the company’s High Plains wind project, which also is under construction and is scheduled for completion in this autumn.

3Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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