Mike Lockhart, a wildlife biologist specializing in eagles who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years, told Cowboy State Daily the impacts to eagle populations from Wyoming’s wind farms is being underreported and downplayed.
Wyoming is home to the largest wind farm development in the country, as well as a number of others that are under construction. But the future is unknown as wind turbine manufacturers across the globe are reporting huge losses and layoffs.
Col. Tucker Fagan (ret.), former commander of FE Warren AFB in Cheyenne, said he has concerns using portable turbines in military operations — instead of generators — as safety of personnel should be the top concern, not emissions.
On Sept. 4, 1982, about 500 residents, including Sen. Malcolm Wallop and Gov Ed Herschler, gathered in Medicine Bow as state officials dedicated Wyoming’s first wind power turbines at an event dubbed “Wind Turbine Day.”
With one exception, Wyoming wind and solar projects haven’t yet generated much local opposition, but that’s likely to change as those industries build out more and larger operations in the Cowboy State.
A new Biden administration proposal would provide an expedited permitting process for activities that kill eagles, including wind farms.
The Rail Tie Wind Project in southeastern Wyoming has cleared another major hurdle on its way to completion.
Despite his advocacy for green energy, a veteran Wyoming biologist is calling for Carbon and Albany Counties to stop wind energy expansion because of large amounts of golden eagle deaths.
A wind power development company whose windmills across the country have been blamed for the deaths of 150 golden and bald eagles has been cited in the deaths of nine of the birds in Wyoming and New Mexico.
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You could generate 504 megawatts of power on 3733 acres with solar rather than using over almost 27,000 acres for a wind plant to generate the same amount of power.
With reports of wind turbine blades breaking and falling off, some protestors of an Albany County wind project point to that as another example that state and local regulations need to be reconsidered.
Construction on the Roundhouse project, which will consist of up to 120 turbines, began in 2019 and is expected to be completed at the end of this year.
An approved change in the construction schedule of the largest wind farm in Wyoming doesn’t mean that the project south of Rawlins has been delayed.
The Casper landfill will soon be the home of more than 1,000 decommissioned wind turbine blades and motor housing units.
