All Posts Tagged With: "sage grouse"

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Wind Industry’s Challenge of Co-Existing
with Wildlife in Wyoming and Elsewhere

The problem with the Wyoming approach is that it is not based on extensive information about how wind projects impact sage grouse. “We don’t have the information about how wind affects sage grouse,” says Laurie Jodziewicz, AWEA’s manager of siting policy. “And we have little opportunity to do research because you can’t build in the core areas.”

16Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Energy Groups Relieved Sage Grouse will
Not be Listed

Friday’s announcement by the Interior Department that it won’t list the bird as an endangered or threatened species has energy industries operating in the West breathing a little easier. The oil and gas, wind and solar industries will still face scrutiny in sage grouse habitat but much less so than if the bird had made the list.

8Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Expands “Common-Sense” Efforts to Conserve Sage Grouse Habitat in the West

The federal government will start to protect the sage grouse as a “candidate” species under the Endangered Species Act. The Interior said the compromise decision embraces the latest science indicating that sage grouse need help to avoid extinction in the face of energy development, grazing and house-building.

5Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Casper Economic Forecast —
Wyoming News is Mostly Grim

A new pipeline was the most uplifting report at the gathering, while how much things have changed during the last two years was highlighted by Buck McVeigh, administrator of the Economic Analysis Division for the State of Wyoming.

3Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Mystery Surrounds Fate of Sage Grouse:
Agencies Could List Bird by Next Month

Mountain Home rancher Steve Damele is the kind of cattleman who doesn’t mince words when talking about threatened species on his land. But he only had one answer when asked if his property was habitat for the Greater sage grouse. “I’d rather not say.”

26Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State BLM Issues Sage Grouse Guidelines

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is directing its Wyoming offices to consider certain restrictions for oil and gas drilling, new wind turbines and other types of development in sage grouse habitat. In many cases, the BLM could limit drilling to one well pad per square mile.

8Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Agency Sets Wildlife Protection Guidelines
for Wind Energy Developers

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has released recommendations for protecting wildlife during wind energy development, including restrictions in sage grouse habitat and in big game winter range and migration corridors.

6Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Renewable Energy, Meet the New Nimbys

At a wind-energy conference in Wyoming last month, Gov. Freudenthal delivered a stern warning to wind-turbine developers, telling them to make sure their projects don’t harm a small bird called the sage grouse. “What I have is an obsession with making sure that the economy of this state continues to function, and it won’t if that bird gets listed,” according to his office’s transcript of his remarks.

7Sep2009 | 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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Wind Developers Seek Review of State’s
Sage Grouse Policy

Wind industry groups Interwest Energy Alliance, American Wind Energy Association and Renewable Northwest Project sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar requesting the Interior Department review Wyoming’s sage grouse protection policy.

14Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Wind Power Could Drive Sage Grouse
to Endangered List

“The bird does well in the existing conditions that are out here. It’s the new threat from wind energy that has got us so worried,” said Aaron Clark, special adviser on energy infrastructure to Wyoming Gov. Freudenthal.

5Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds to Review Sage Grouse Status in Wyoming

The overall sage grouse population is actually on the rise in Wyoming as part of the bird’s cyclical trends, according to local wildlife officials. Yet the BLM, which oversees a bulk of sage grouse habitat in the state, has not come forward with its own comprehensive sage grouse conservation plan.

30Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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