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Results for keyword: wind energy

  • Audio: High Country Views, episode 1

    Audio: High Country Views, episode 1

    Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk wind and coal.

    by Cally Carswell, Mar 09, 2010
  • How big is your backyard?

    How big is your backyard?

    We all become NIMBYs when development threatens our favorite landscapes – even conservative oilmen like Wyoming’s Diemer True.

    by Paul Larmer, Dec 15, 2009
  • Wind Resistance

    Wind Resistance

    Wyoming is one of the best places in the world to generate power from wind. But the wind rush is running into opposition from greens, and the fossil fuel industry.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 15, 2009
  • Battle for the core of Wyoming

    Battle for the core of Wyoming

    Wyoming's sage grouse protection strategy gives fossil fuel elbow room while leaving wind energy out in the breeze.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 15, 2009

  • Blades, birds and bats: Wind energy and wildlife not a cut-and-dried issue

    Wind farms are working to make their turbines less hazardous to birds and bats

    by Hilary Watts, May 02, 2005

  • Los Angeles dumps coal deal

    Los Angeles has decided to pull out of a deal to expand a coal-fired power plant in Delta, Utah, using the money for renewable energy instead

    by Deanna Belch, Feb 07, 2005

  • Colorado voters hold the cards on renewable energy

    In November, Coloradans will have the chance to vote on a citizen-proposed renewable-energy initiative, but the utilities are working hard to defeat it

    by Laura Paskus, Sep 13, 2004

  • Renewable energy made simple

    Rex Ewing?s book, Power with Nature: Solar and Wind Energy Demystified, is exactly what it claims to be: a practical, readable handbook on converting to renewable energy

    by Linda Masterson, Feb 02, 2004

  • The BLM is blowing in the wind

    The Bureau of Land Management is studying the prospects for developing wind energy on Western public lands

    by Jodi Peterson, Nov 24, 2003
 

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