About 200 concerned citizens flocked to Douglas May 7 for the first meeting of the Northern Laramie Range Alliance, an organization of landowners and citizens bent on stopping the development of wind turbines and the construction of a segment of Rocky Mountain Power's proposed Gateway West Transmission Line in the northern Laramie Mountains.

"The main objective of the (Northern Laramie Range Alliance) is that we want to successfully oppose both of these things," Kenneth Lay, one of the alliance's founding members, explained. "For anybody who's in favor of them, this probably isn't your group."

The Laramie Range Alliance began to take shape when Lay joined with fellow landowners Diemer True and Tom Swanson following a public meeting held in Glenrock to discuss RMP's proposed Gateway West Transmission Line. The alliance later broadened its mission when Utah-based Wasatch Wind started showing interest in leasing large amounts of land in the area... [continue via Web link]