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New rules to limit wind power in Wyoming
Wind energy development is "functionally precluded" in about 20 percent of Wyoming under new Bureau of Land Management guidelines laid out on Monday to protect a threatened bird, the governor's office said. ...the reality going forward will be that new developments will have to be relegated to the one oil pad per square mile."
January 4, 2010
by Ed Stoddard
in Reuters
DALLAS - Wind energy development is "functionally precluded" in about 20 percent of Wyoming under new Bureau of Land Management guidelines laid out on Monday to protect a threatened bird, the governor's office said.
"It functionally precludes it (wind power development) in about 20 percent of Wyoming," Ryan Lance, deputy chief of staff to Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, told Reuters in a phone interview.
He said the new rules -- which have been lauded by environmental groups such as Audubon which lobbied for them -- also meant that in key areas future developments by the oil and gas industry would be restricted... [continue via Web link]
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