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Edison Mission Energy, a financial partner on the project, filed for bankruptcy in December. http://www.windaction.org/articles/38411 http://www.windaction.org/articles/38331 Thu, 09 May 2013 11:28:52 GMT Specifically, the company is asking for a 10-month extension of the July 18, 2013, deadline to meet Special Condition #19 requiring the company to provide evidence of sufficient financial resources to construct, maintain, operate, decommission and reclaim the facility. ...The Industrial Siting Council will meet at 10 a.m. on Monday June 24, 2013, to consider the company's request for the extension. http://www.windaction.org/articles/38331 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37792 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:40:22 GMT PCW originally planned to file the application on Jan. 21, but decided to wait to apply to see what would happen with Senate File 49, which, if passed, would have required projects requesting a permit from the ISC to spend 25 percent of anticipated project funds during the first two years of the project. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37792 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37451 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:17:14 GMT The company held its application because of concerns over now-dead legislation which could have affected construction on the project. The bill in question, Senate File 49, would have required companies with large enough projects to spend at least 25 percent of the anticipated cost in the first two years after approval. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37451 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36788 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:39:35 GMT "While disappointed with the court's ruling, the Northern Laramie Range Alliance believes the outcome is not surprising: As far as we have been able to determine, the ISC has never declined to issue an industrial siting permit in its 40 years of existence," the statement said. The alliance's news release also noted that Edison is in bankruptcy. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36788 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36320 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:37:45 GMT The Laramie-based Biodiversity Conservation Alliance is considering legal action because of its concerns that the Chokecherry Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project would devastate local sage grouse and golden eagle populations. The project, calls for the construction of 1,000 wind turbines on 219,707 acres of land in Carbon County. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36320 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36298 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:50:00 GMT The site, which encompasses approximately 2,000 acres of public and private land, will be home to 1,000 wind turbines and produce 2,500 megawatts of electricity. Once completed the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy project will be the largest wind farm in the country. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36298 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35645 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:06:53 GMT When the Power Co. of Wyoming started developing plans for the 1,000-turbine Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project in Carbon County, it estimated paying between $292 million and $438 million in taxes over 20 years. Under the current tax structure, it would pay an estimated $675 million to $821 million. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35645 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35631 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:06:21 GMT "They need to have a little more certainty around the customer base before they start putting in the capital investment," Jensen said. "They are going to make sure they have somebody to sell the towers to. You can't expect a company to lay out capital investment and hire people based on a one-year certainty." http://www.windaction.org/articles/35631 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35652 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 05:53:00 GMT Wyoming officials have started a campaign to sell Wyoming wind to California and are preparing a similar sales pitch to Colorado. Both states want electric utilities to provide a percentage of their power from renewable sources, such as wind. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35652 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35627 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:52:25 GMT So far this year, no developers have visited the state's Industrial Siting Division to discuss any new wind energy project plans, said Todd Parfitt, administrator for the division, which is part of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35627 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35177 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:19:07 GMT US developer Wasatch Wind has postponed the completion of a 100MW project in Wyoming until 2013 due to legal appeals by an opposition group, which have forced it to terminate a power-purchase agreement (PPA) with the state's largest electricity utility. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35177 http://www.windaction.org/articles/34894 Wed, 02 May 2012 19:23:53 GMT Meanwhile, with the delay for Pioneer I construction until at least 2013, Wasatch's 50-megawatt power purchase agreement with Rocky Mountain Power was terminated because the company could not fulfill the contractual terms to begin delivering power in October. The agreement is vital to the project because it assures financial backers that the wind power can be sold. http://www.windaction.org/articles/34894 http://www.windaction.org/articles/34848 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:23:05 GMT Wasatch said the delay comes because numerous legal challenges to the project by the Northern Laramie Range Alliance have made it impossible to start generating power on that site by October, forcing the company to break a power purchase agreement with Rocky Mountain Power. http://www.windaction.org/articles/34848 http://www.windaction.org/articles/34783 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:03:58 GMT Reed and Scott paid phone solicitors to make cold calls to investors, telling them that the wind farms were being constructed jointly by private investors and the U.S. government. Potential stakeholders were told that "government funds had been set aside by the President of the United States ...these alleged wind farm projects." http://www.windaction.org/articles/34783 http://www.windaction.org/articles/34359 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:52:42 GMT No developer with state turbine permits in hand has abandoned a project, Parfitt said. But a number of wind farms are on hold, have yet to complete additional construction phases or are still dealing with a range of issues. http://www.windaction.org/articles/34359 http://www.windaction.org/articles/34358 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:43:54 GMT The Sweetwater County Commission approved a temporary halt to applications for commercial wind farms, pending changes in county rules and public meetings. The county has not met state standards for wind farm zoning, and Commission Chairman Wally Johnson said that the county is not ready for any new wind farm projects. http://www.windaction.org/articles/34358 http://www.windaction.org/articles/16731 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:02:55 GMT The Northern Laramie Range Alliance appealed the permits granted by the Converse County Commission in May and by the state Industrial Siting Council -- a state board that must approve large commercial projects in the state -- in June. http://www.windaction.org/articles/16731 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33752 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:14:52 GMT Construction on a wind tower manufacturing facility that was supposed to employ 150 in Laramie County has been delayed until at least next spring. This throws up "caution flags," said Randy Bruns, CEO of Cheyenne LEADS, the economic development corporation for Cheyenne and Laramie County. http://www.windaction.org/articles/33752