From the monthly archives:

February 2008

February 12, 2008

Showdown at Glenrock: Brad Enzi rides to rescue Two Elk Power Plant

After years of construction inactivity and several false starts, some wags in Wyoming’s coal rich Powder River Basin began to refer to the proposed billion dollar Two Elk power plant project 40 miles southeast of  Gillette as “No Elk.”
“It’s kind of like Two Elk and ‘Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy?’ ” said Christy [...]

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February 8, 2008

Does Wyoming Get Enough for Its Mineral Riches? Severance Tax Reform in the Cowboy State

In December 2007, Governor Sarah Palin gave Alaskans a nice present.
She signed legislation boosting Alaska’s severance tax. The state would now take 25 percent of taxable income derived from oil and gas production. Previously it had been 22.5 percent.
Severance or production taxes are one-time levies on oil, gas, and coal and other natural resources as [...]

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February 8, 2008

A Powerful Event in Cheyenne, Roughnecks Lose Round in House

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Journalists are supposed to investigate and expose public servants, we’re supposed to remind them that they’re being watched. But the atmosphere in Wyoming’s state capitol so heavily favors the powerful oil and gas industry that it can be daunting for a writer to uncover where the industry has an unseemly reach into the decisions [...]

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February 5, 2008

A Whiff of Wyoming Injustice, Fairness for Our Fallen Workers

I am about as unlikely an advocate for Wyoming roughnecks’ rights as you could find. For one thing, I’m a writer — hardly a dangerous profession (unless you consider caffeine overdose or a paper-cut dangerous). For another thing, I am not local (I’m from Africa and as a result I sound about as Wyoming-roughneck as, [...]

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