Posted on 06/20/2023 11:24:04 AM PDT by grundle
RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Portrait photographer Anne Brande shoots graduation and wedding engagement photos at scenic spots throughout southeastern Wyoming’s granite mountains and sprawling sagebrush valleys, but worries what those views will look like in a few years. Wind energy is booming here.
In a state where being able to hunt, fish and camp in gorgeous and untrammeled nature is a way of life, worries about spoiled views, killed eagles and disturbed big-game animals such as elk and mule deer have grown with the spread of wind turbines.
On Tuesday, state and federal officials will break ground on TransWest Express, a transmission line that will move electricity from the $5 billion, 3,000-megawatt, 600-turbine Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farm to southern California, a place legally mandated to switch to clean energy. The wind farm will be the country’s biggest yet.
As elsewhere, opposition to wind farms in Wyoming correlates with proximity to homes and cabins: Chokecherry and Sierra Madre is massive but isolated, and has generated less opposition than some others. But Brande and rural property owners opposed a 500-megawatt, 120-turbine wind farm soon to be built near the Colorado state line. They lost, but the matter reached the Wyoming Supreme Court.
The contentious county approval process included a five-hour public hearing in a packed courtroom in Laramie in 2021. Residents expressed a range of concerns, from turbine blades killing birds to construction blasting damaging home foundations.
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If they really don't want it they can pressure their elective reps to get it stopped. That is if they are not all payed off.
“unfair to the people of Wyoming”
Only the people of Wyoming can stop this.
But ... they have to DO something
go to local gov meetings
planning department meetings
comment meetings
and they need to “dephi” the crap out of them.
Kill those birds, create plenty of solid pollution that we don’t know what to do with.
It’s just sad the destruction these idiots cause. They’re lunatics.
Wyoming will soon resemble Western Oklahoma as far as ugly wind farms go.
Why can't the NIMBYs stop this one?
They’ve destroyed the scenery around the Palm Springs area. It’s looks like s**t now.
They could .... if they do the WORK.
Ever notice that leftys never have a problem gathering up a crowd?
Try getting 10 conservatives in one place at one time pointed in the same direction.
The same independent attitude that makes us conservative, works against us when it's time to compete.
But there are methods that can be taught and ..learned.
This country is toast. (Not my preferred adverb)
You should see what Palm Springs looks like now with all the wind farms in it.
What a train wreck of a town now.
any state that declares it wants to get rid of diesel and gasoline and natural gas should build their own electric generating system.
no other state should help them at all!!!
Are you sure they stopped the transmission line in ME ?
I know they stopped the Northern Pass here in NH. Even though they were going to bury part of the line in Plymouth, NH.
I thought the line in ME was going to go through because most of the right of way was over private timber lands owned by Jim Irving and a couple other major forestry companies.
Federal officials fail to not snow fall depths in Wyoming and power outages.
OH SHIT awards to ensue at later date.
It’s time to fill up the Grand Canyon and generate some electricity.
Alternate Headline
Developers plan to STARVE the plant world by preventing millions of tons of PLANT FOOD emissions. (C02)
In other news, India, which already gets 70% of its electricity from coal, is ramping up even more coal production. Perhaps someday India will receive an award for saving the plant kingdom from the envirowackos.
Cut California OFF !
Looks like it may happen now: From EENEWS in April: "One of the largest clean energy projects in New England is racking up victories in court, but the project’s developer said Wednesday it won’t know until midyear when construction will resume."
There is also a fight with a nuclear plant owner of a circuit breaker.
The reason the Northern Pass was defeated in NH was only partially due to the NIMBY. However, since there was very expensive real estate in the Big Squam Lake area that were going to have this transmission line in their backyard. They had more pull than the poorer people in northern most county where the majority of the line was going to be built.
The rest of the line was going over existing ROW.
The real issue was that the electricity was not needed in the foreseeable future here in the granite state. The potential shortage is in MA, CT & RI. So, a lot of people thought WHY should NH be affected for a power line that is not really needed in NH. Let MA, CT & RI be responsible for their own electrical needs, not us.
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