All Posts Tagged With: "Wyoming wind industry"

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Developers Forging Ahead with Wyo-Colo Transmission Line

Despite slow going, a power transmission project line linking the wind fields of southeast Wyoming and Colorado’s Front Range is still being pushed by developers — New Jersey-based LS Power and the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority.

15Mar2010 | 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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Public Meeting on Feb 24th for White Mountain Wind Project

Teton Wind is proposing to construct up to 240 wind turbines on roughly 13,165 acres atop White Mountain, which lies west and northwest of Rock Springs.

9Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Seeks Public Comment on Proposed
Wind Development Changes

Wyoming officials say the key change — a modification of how surface damages are paid - should benefit both wind energy developers and existing state land lessees. Wyoming is seeking public comment on the new rules during hearings that will be held throughout next month.

8Feb2010 | 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 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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State One of Top Five to Add Wind Capacity in Q3

The Cowboy State added 170 MW of capacity from July through September, and, no doubt, the major wind farm developments of Duke Energy were instrumental in Wyoming hitting that high number.

21Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Fredenthal Wants Wind Industry to Offer More

The many companies intent on harvesting Wyoming wind to generate electricity will be expected to offer the state more than just wind turbines and their associated impacts, Gov. Dave Freudenthal said today in his keynote address to the Wyoming Wind Symposium.

14Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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