Archive for September, 2010

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California Renewable Energy Mandate Could Mean Big Business for Wyoming

The California Air Resources Board adopted a new standard mandating that utilities there get 33 percent of their power from wind, solar, and other renewables by 2020 — but experts say there won’t be enough homegrown power to meet the state’s demand. Enter Wyoming wind.

29Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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ConocoPhillips CEO: Natural Gas a
“Job Creation Machine”

Mulva emphasized the need for a “balanced energy policy that allows all sources to compete on the basis of abundance, cost, efficiency, and environmental merit. We don’t have that today as current policies stack the deck in favor of coal and renewable sources.”

28Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Counties Looking to Wind Tax for
Road Revenue

Local governments would get their share of sales taxes up front to provide services for wind energy projects under a plan devised by a legislative subcommittee Wednesday. The wind energy subcommittee of the Joint Interim Revenue Committee is developing the proposal.

24Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Puts Exploratory Wells Near Adobe Town on Hold

Director Don Simpson of the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management issued the decision last week, responding to a “request for director review” made by The Wilderness Society and Laramie-based Biodiversity Conservation Alliance.

20Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Encana: Drilling Did Not Taint Water in Pavillion

A company spokesman said government tests on 17 private water wells in the farming town of Pavillion showed low levels of petroleum hydrocarbons, and inorganic substances that naturally occur. Encana is working with the EPA and state authorities to clean up three wastewater pits in the area where the agency found “high” levels of petroleum compounds in groundwater.

18Sep2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Oil & Gas WIRE –

>> LEGACY RESERVES closes on three acquisitions
>> MOUNTAIN HAWK ENERGY buys stake in Clabaugh
>> WILLIAMS PARTNERS starts Echo Springs NG plant
>> WYOMING POLS question Interior Memo

16Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Denbury to Pony Up $115 Million for Wyoming Assets

Denbury said it will get a 42.5 percent interest in the Riley Ridge Federal Unit, and 33 percent of the carbon dioxide rights in another 28,000 acres nearby. It expects the deal to close in late October and said the production of natural gas and helium from the Riley Ridge unit is expected to start in late 2011.

16Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Brookings Report: Mountain West Poised to Lead Energy System Transformation

The report encourages the U.S. to move proactively and aggressively to build the proposed Intermountain West network of high-powered energy innovation commercialization centers, and thereby creating the “next economy” in the mountain region and nationally.

15Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Campbell County Zoned for Wind Energy

The commission has adopted a new Wind Generation Overlay District — an action that zones the entire county under the new district to allow for wind farm development.

15Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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China’s Rigged Green Manufacturing
a Threat to United States

The report shows that almost all of China’s manufacturing businesses in the sector are breaking World Trade Organization laws — adopted and followed by most countries — by receiving giant government subsidies and dirt cheap land while still exporting the majority of their goods.

13Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Grid Study Underway for 250MW Wind Project
in Weston County

The company confirmed this week it has moved forward with the system impact study for interconnection of 250 Megawatts of wind generation, to the Black Hills Power transmission system, for the Company’s Weston Wind I wind power project, located in Weston County.

10Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Duke Wind Energy Disputes State Tax Bill

When the tax bill came due this year, the North Carolina-based energy went back on its promise, and filed appeals of the state’s property tax assessments on all four of its wind energy projects in Wyoming: Silver Sage and Happy Jack in Laramie County and Campbell Hill and Top of the World in Converse County.

9Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Week in Review –

>> Industry Critical of State’s Royalty Fee Hike
>> Feds Warn Pavillon Residents Not To Drink Tap Water
>> State Seeks Buyers for Abandoned Coal-Bed Gas Wells
>> Wyoming Workplace Fatality Rate Now Third in Nation

3Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued