More than a month after requesting a rate increase of 13.7 percent for 2010, Rocky Mountain Power officials say several factors are in play that could lessen the impact on Wyoming ratepayers.
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Power producers have installed more than 500 megawatts of wind energy generation in Wyoming in the past year. One driver behind the wind boom presumably is action by other states in the West to require that utilities use certain percentages of renewable energy in their power supplies -- c…
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Like it or not, the nature of energy is changing in the world, and Wyoming will change with it.
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LARAMIE -- The Joint Judiciary Committee on Monday voted down a measure that would have held oil and gas operators liable for their own portion of negligence in workplace accidents.
Nov 17, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
A recent resolution by the Teton County Commission supporting more disclosure of hydraulic fracturing fluids was met with some harsh words from the Petroleum Association of Wyoming.
Nov 15, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
State officials expect a big push in congress to increase penalties and inspections under the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Nov 15, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Leroy Fried was killed -- crushed by a beam while he and his crew were setting up a drilling rig -- on Aug. 2, 2004.
Nov 15, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Amid much skepticism, a legislative committee voted this week to take up a draft bill that would add “oxy-combustion” coal-fired power plants to an existing sales-and-use tax exemption for the power industry.
Nov 13, 2009 | 8:45 am | Loading…
Wyoming's Wind Energy Task Force has delivered a 78-page report to state lawmakers outlining how the state and counties might regulate the fledgling wind energy industry.
Nov 11, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Natural gas production levels in Wyoming have mostly held steady this year in the midst of a huge drop in drilling activity. Now some of the major players are making steps toward moderately increased levels of drilling for 2010.
Nov 09, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
GILLETTE -- Gloves filled with paint, globs of Play-Doh and mounds of construction paper in the hands of 20 toddlers unleashing their creative energy are most parents' worst mess-making nightmare.
Nov 08, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
The fee to process federal oil and gas applications for permits to drill increased this month from $4,000 per application to $6,500.
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ROCK SPRINGS -- As expected, members of the Utility Workers Union of American soundly rejected a proposed three-year contract offer from Rocky Mountain Power Co.
Nov 07, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
LARAMIE -- By allowing private ownership of minerals such as coal and oil, the United States and Canada are outside the vast majority of the world's nations in which the governments retain ownership of minerals in the public interest, a visiting professor at the University of Wyoming said…
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CHEYENNE -- The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has released recommendations for protecting wildlife during wind energy development, including restrictions in sage grouse habitat and in big game winter range and migration corridors.
Nov 06, 2009 | 9:45 am | Loading…
Teton County commissioners passed a resolution this week urging passage of a bill currently before Congress that would further regulate the natural gas industry's practice of hydraulic fracturing.
Nov 06, 2009 | 9:45 am | Loading…
Wyoming Bureau of Land Management officials announced Wednesday they had deferred 15 oil and gas lease parcels from being included in a Dec. 1 public auction, "pending Washington Office guidance on wilderness issues."
Nov 05, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
NEW YORK -- The biggest name in investing is making what he calls an "all-in wager" on the U.S. economy -- $34 billion to own a railroad that hauls everything from coal to cars across the country.
Nov 04, 2009 | 1:00 am | Loading…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Coal mining companies from Appalachia to Missouri are seeing plenty of rebounding demand, just not here at home.
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and other Republicans boycotted the start of committee debate Tuesday on a bill to curb greenhouse gases, protesting that the bill's costs have not been fully examined.
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
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