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State: No turbines in grouse areas
State officials recently reached a decision not to allow wind development -- or even a pilot study -- in Wyoming's sage grouse core areas.
It's a potentially huge blow to several wind development projects, including Horizon Wind Energy's Simpson Ridge project and Power Company of Wyoming's Sierra Madre and Chokecherry wind projects -- all in Carbon County.
Gov. Dave Freudenthal issued the core areas sage grouse management plan by executive order in August 2008.
July 2, 2009
by Dustin Bleizeffer
in Casper Star-Tribune
State officials recently reached a decision not to allow wind development -- or even a pilot study -- in Wyoming's sage grouse core areas.
It's a potentially huge blow to several wind development projects, including Horizon Wind Energy's Simpson Ridge project and Power Company of Wyoming's Sierra Madre and Chokecherry wind projects -- all in Carbon County.
Gov. Dave Freudenthal issued the core areas sage grouse management plan by executive order in August 2008, mapping out the state's best sage grouse habitat and listing a number of requirements that severely restrict new development within the areas.
The plan is hailed by some as... [continue via Web link]
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