All Posts Tagged With: "Horizon Wind Energy"

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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