Wind Farms

A growing wind turbine proposal has locals worried about eagle populations and the balance of nature in southeast Wyoming. Sounds like a storm is brewing.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers are discussing whether to end a tax break on new wind energy projects. The Legislature’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee voted 6-5 Friday to draft a bill that would eliminate a three-year electricity tax moratorium for new wind projects ...

The commission, which approves siting permits for wind farms, has not acted on the requests.

Miller says the company anticipates beginning construction next year.

All interveners except a sheep ranch have withdrawn from the case.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A new joint venture funded by TIAA-CREF (T-I-A-A Kref) and an Alaskan company, Cook Inlet Region, Inc. is acquiring two wind farms in Wyoming. The two companies have joined with Edison Mission Energy to form Capistrano Wind Partners LLC...

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Federal and state officials held a closed meeting recently with private landowners about the Chokecherry Sierra Madre wind farm project south of Rawlins. Bureau of Land Management archaeologist Pat Walker says the meeting last week in Rawlins was not open to the public in order to protect the location of archaeological sites on private land...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Three proposed wind farms in Wyoming are among the projects that the Bureau of Land Management plans to fast-track nationally. One is the 1,000-turbine Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy project south of Rawlins, proposed by the Denver-based Anschutz Corp...

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Two proposed wind farms in Sweetwater County are facing challenges. The proposed wind farm on White Mountain is moving slowly forward, though proponents are grappling with issues raised by eagles in the area...