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Find Solutions, Cut The Rhetoric, Save
the Sage Grouse

A new BLM study indicates that energy development and West Nile virus outbreaks threaten to make the sage grouse extinct in Wyoming. According to the “Powder River Basin Sage Grouse Viability Study,” from 2001 to 2005, sage grouse populations have declined 82 percent within the coalbed methane fields in northeast Wyoming.

22Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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REGIONAL NEWS — Industry Group Responds to Colorado Public Health Study on Air Pollution From Fracking

Energy In Depth says that if you look past the ominous headlines that the study launch generated and examine the range of what it describes as ‘the strange assumptions forming the basis for the report,’ the conclusions are not only rendered fairly predictable, but also flawed.

21Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Home Grown: Land Use Plannning Evolves and Adapts in Unlikely Corner of Wyoming

The county is solidly Republican and you’ll never hear a syllable of disregard concerning guns or property rights from any politician. However, when challenges arise, the county doesn’t seem to have much trouble asking for advice, even if it comes from, you know, the outside.

19Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Production Tax Credit Stalls in Senate

The amendment that failed Tuesday also included tax credits for energy-efficient homes, biofuels and other initiatives; but, because there wasn’t a way to pay for them included in the proposal, it struggled to win broader support — and the 60 votes needed to pass it.

14Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Regional News — Colorado State University in Fort Collins Establishes Natural Gas Initiative

The interdisciplinary course this spring features an introduction to the natural gas industry including geology, exploration, production, transportation and environmental issues. Increased demand for natural gas and greater public interest in drilling here in Colorado are big reasons why.

12Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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From the Corner Office –
Road to New Revenue Standards Rocky but Convergence Still Progressing

If companies don’t begin to analyze the rules soon, they might have to create two sets of records or completely restate financial statements, both of which are expensive and problematic.

12Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Joint Venture Buying Wyoming Wind Farms

TIAA-CREF and Alaska-based Cook Inlet Region, Inc., have joined Edison Mission Energy to form Capistrano Wind Partners, LLC in order to take over Mountain I and Mountain II wind developments near Evanston.

8Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Special Report: Wyoming Lacks
‘Culture of Safety’

A priority is to create a central database for information related to workplace fatalities, which should be easily accessed for analysis. The focus of all these efforts should be on Wyoming’s “high risk” industries, which Ryan lists as “oil and gas, transportation and construction.”

7Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind-Power Sector Loses Luster With Investors

U.S. investments in turbine farms and wind-energy businesses tumbled 38 percent last year to $9.7 billion, according to data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Venture capitalists have practically left the sector altogether. They invested only $177.6 million in wind startups last year, down 71 percent from the year before.

6Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Keystone Pipeline Could Raise — Not Lower —
Gas Prices in Wyoming and Colorado

“The Canadian plan was to use their market power to raise prices in the United States (UNG) and get more money from consumers,” Philip Verleger, founder of Colorado-based energy consulting firm PK Verleger LLC, noted in
an interview.

2Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Rejects Biggest State Coal Bid in Years

Saying the bid was below the reserves’ estimated fair market value, the agency nixed the offer from a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. of $362 million for slightly more than 400 million tons of Powder River Basin coal reserves.

1Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Coal to Natural Gas Transition: New Data Says It
Has Climate Benefits

The data clearly shows that substituting natural gas for coal will have a substantial greenhouse benefit under almost any set of reasonable assumptions. Methane emissions must be five times larger than they currently appear to be before gas substitution for coal becomes detrimental from a global warming perspective on any time scale

1Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Commentary: Wyoming Lays Groundwork for What? Secession?

Granted, it’s worthwhile to prepare for interruptions in food distribution, shortfalls in the state budget, earthquakes, forest fires raging through our dead forests, terrorist attacks, tornadoes and other disasters. But if the Federal Reserve Bank fails, I don’t think we can create a Wyoming Reserve Bank to take its place.

28Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Western Senators Make Bipartisan Push to Extend Wind Energy Tax Credit

The Colorado and Kansas lawmakers have filed an amendment that would extend the wind energy production tax credit (PTC) for one year to a bill currently under debate in the U.S. Senate. The extension of the wind PTC is fully paid for. Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) is a cosponsor of the amendment.

21Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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