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Shhhhhh! There's A Pot Of Gold In The Dusty Landscape Of Wamsutter, Wyoming
The wheels are turning on a $300 million distribution hub in Wamsutter, Wyoming, to move huge volumes of natural gas across the U.S. West, but nobody will talk about it.
Pat MaioMarch 10, 2024
State of Wyoming Has 2 EVs In Its Fleet of 1,100 Vehicles And Not Likely To Get Any More
The state of Wyoming has nearly 1,100 vehicles in its fleet, including two electric vehicles. State officials say the two EVs in Cheyenne work fine but the state is too spacious for any more.
Pat MaioMarch 09, 2024
Critics Say BLM ‘Doing Bare Minimum’ For Wyoming Oil And Gas Lease Auctions
Critics of oil and gas lease auctions held by BLM want more federal land offered for sale, with one Wyoming industry representative saying the agency is just “doing the bare minimum” required to favor green polices.
Pat MaioMarch 07, 2024
Race Is On To Produce Wyoming Rare Earths As Wheatland Project Advances
American Rare Earths Inc. said Wednesday that it has raised nearly $9 million to advance its mining project near Wheatland. It's significant because several rare earth minerals companies in Wyoming are rushing to get their shovels in the ground first and move to commercial-scale production.
Pat MaioMarch 06, 2024
Wyoming Rare Earths Project Near Upton Could Be Richer Than Estimated
Rare Element Resources, scheduled to complete a rare earth minerals demonstration plant in Upton in northeast Wyoming this summer, could have richer deposits of minerals than estimated, but could need more money to finish.
Pat MaioMarch 05, 2024
Wyoming Holding Smallest Oil & Gas Lease Auction In Years; Dismal Prospects Continue
Wyoming is holding its smallest oil and gas lease auction in years this week and that's par for the course lately. During the Trump years, the state of Wyoming collected $95 million in bonus and rental fees, compared with a little over $19 million during the Biden years.
Pat MaioMarch 04, 2024
More Than $11 Million Earmarked For Wyoming Oil, Mineral Projects
An influential panel of Wyoming's Energy Matching Funds program wants to spend more than $11 million to evaluate two projects that could help energize electric vehicles and squeeze more oil out of the ground.
Pat MaioFebruary 29, 2024
Wyoming Likely To See Billions Of Dollars In Wind Projects Built In Next Few Years
Wind projects costing billions of dollars that expect to produce thousands of megawatts of wind power are in the pipeline to be built in Wyoming. But predicting when they could be connected to the electric grid is much more difficult to predict.
Pat MaioFebruary 27, 2024
Federal Coal Leasing In Wyoming Expected To Draw Lukewarm Interest This Year
The moratorium on federal coal leasing in Wyoming's Powder River Basin has been lifted, but experts don't expect a bidding rush until after the Nov. 5 presidential election.
Pat MaioFebruary 23, 2024
Appeals Court Ruling Lifts Moratorium On Wyoming’s Federal Coal Leases
A longstanding federal moratorium on coal leases was lifted Wednesday in a move hailed by the Wyoming Mining Association, which call on the BLM to "now actually do its job and let Wyoming producers lease federal coal again."
Pat MaioFebruary 22, 2024
Effort to Build Out EV Charging Stations In Wyoming Struggling to Find Traction
The Wyoming Department of Transportation wants to jump-start its program to build out a network of electric vehicle charging stations with federal money, but the effort can’t seem to find much traction.
Pat MaioFebruary 19, 2024
As Production Slows, Arch Considers Sale of Wyoming Coal Mines
The potential sale of thermal coal assets by Arch Resources isn't the first time the St. Louis company has talked about getting rid of its thermal coal assets in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, which continue to struggle with production.
Pat MaioFebruary 16, 2024
Committee Considers How To Recover Rates For Electricity Shipped Out Of State
A Senate panel is considering a proposal to define recovery of costs that do not benefit ratepayers in Wyoming — especially those coming from wind and solar farms where power sometimes gets shipped out of state.
Pat MaioFebruary 14, 2024
Gillette, Wyoming Makes Pitch To Become Hub To Build Tiny Nuclear Plants
Gillette Mayor Shay Lundvall has a vision for the coal-rich Powder River Basin in northeast Wyoming: Bring a components manufacturer and assembly factory together to build tiny nuclear power plants.
Pat MaioFebruary 12, 2024
World's Foremost Authority On Solar Sheep Advising Wyoming $500 Million Solar Farm
No one knows more about about solar panels and how they affect grazing sheep than Oregon State professor Chad Higgins. Considered the world's foremost authority in agrivoltaics, he's helping a $500 million solar farm project near Glenrock.
Pat MaioFebruary 09, 2024
Despite Tornado, Peabody Ships Most Fourth Quarter Coal In Four Years
Peabody’s Powder River Basin mines shipped 23.6 million tons of coal in the fourth quarter of 2023, the highest quarterly volume since 2019 despite recovery efforts from a tornado that hit its flagship mine.
Pat MaioFebruary 08, 2024
Wyoming Treasurer Wants To Know How Atlas Carbon Spent $15 Million Loan
Wyoming Treasurer Curt Meier said he is heading up to Gillette to get a firsthand look at what Atlas Carbon did with the state’s loan money and to review the books to see if the state’s investment is salvageable.
Pat MaioFebruary 08, 2024
Hageman Wants To Give Local Control Of 99-Year-Old Wyoming Hydro Plant
Rep. Hageman’s proposal to transfer ownership of a shuttered 99-year-old Wyoming Bureau of Reclamation hydro power plant to the Midvale Irrigation District in Fremont County passed the U.S. House on Wednesday.
Pat MaioFebruary 07, 2024
Rare Earths Discovery Near Wheatland So Big It Could Be World Leader
American Rare Earths Inc. disclosed in a technical report on Wednesday that it found 64% more rare earth minerals than it had originally envisioned. “This exceeded our wildest dreams,” CEO Donald Swartz told Cowboy State Daily.
Pat MaioFebruary 07, 2024
Wyoming Company’s Innovative Design Could Make Wind Turbines Obsolete
A Laramie wind energy startup creates wind energy loops that operate horizontally and low to the ground. They say the design could produce hundreds of megawatts of power at a fraction of the cost and footprint of traditional horizontal axis wind turbines.
Pat MaioFebruary 06, 2024
Inside Wyoming's Mission Control For Largest Fleet Of Wind Turbines In The West
PacifiCorp owns 1,032 turbines in the U.S. Northwest and is the most by any rate-regulated power company in the western half of America. It's all controlled from its "mission control center" in Casper, Wyoming.
Pat MaioFebruary 04, 2024
$230 Million Wind Farm Near Glenrock Could Bring 200 Jobs, Power 44,000 Homes
Virginia-based energy giant AES Corp. says its $230 million Settler wind farm near Glenrock, Wyoming, could bring 200 jobs at the peak of construction and produce enough electricity to power 44,000 homes.
Pat MaioFebruary 02, 2024
Wyoming Wants To Use $10 Million In Biden Tax Credits To Access Oil
The Wyoming Legislature will consider a proposal this month to use $10 million from a Biden Administration tax credit for enhanced oil recovery.
Pat MaioFebruary 01, 2024
Canadian Company To Go After Millions Of Pounds Of Wyoming Uranium
A rush to open uranium mines in Wyoming has Nuclear Fuels looking across the Kaycee countryside for deposits that could access millions of pounds of uranium as the state and nation rush to roll out new nuclear plants.
Pat MaioJanuary 31, 2024