From the monthly archives:

November 2008

November 24, 2008

Misguided Midnight Madness: Interior’s Oil Shale Revival

Casper — Watching Wyoming voters line up out the polling-place doors earlier this month, in lusty support of the “drill baby drill” philosophy of natural resource management, one recalls the bumper sticker prayer from our economically stagnant 1980s and 90s: “Lord, give us one more boom. We promise not to screw it up this time.”
Well, [...]

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November 17, 2008

Wyoming Ruling Complicates Snowmobile Scene, Pro-Snowmobile Group Declares Victory

CASPER  –  U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer said in a Friday ruling that, while he didn’t like another federal judge’s decision to throw out Yellowstone National Park snowmobile rules, he wasn’t going to fight it.
But Brimmer confused matters by also ruling that “the NPS[National Park Service] shall reinstate the 2004 temporary rule until such time [...]

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November 17, 2008

$100-million GE-Wyoming Coal Project Found Willing, Discreet Partner In Wyoming

The story behind the new $100-million GE-Wyoming coal gasification project goes back to the early 1980s when a then-California-based energy company, Tosco, was trying to extract fuel from massive oil shale deposits outside Grand Junction, Colorado.
The challenge at the time, former Tosco CEO Morton Winston recalled in an interview with WyoFile.com, was to build a [...]

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November 10, 2008

Yellowstone, Teton Plan Reduces Snowmobiles in Park

Casper — With the winter season closing in and Wyoming snow outfitters in limbo, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park officials unveiled a temporary winter use plan that lowers daily snowmobile numbers by more than 40 percent.
The proposed reduction came after a previous parks service plan, allowing 540 snowmobiles a day into the parks, was [...]

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