(Correction: The initial release of this column contained an error - that 18,000 people had died in the gas incident in Africa. The actual number was closer to 1,800.) 
  LARAMIE - Twenty years ago a huge MORE...

    Remembering that Exxon purchased Mobil a few years back for $81 billion, a piddling $5 million couldn’t matter that much to the corporate behemoth, right? Yet there they were in the Capitol Wednesday, an army of energy industry lobbyists, led by ExxonMobil’s

   CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Senate extensively revised a coal-bed methane water management bill on Thursday, but not the thorniest issue within the bill – whether natural runoff and CBM water are both considered by the State Engineer when calculating channel capacity of ephemeral st

   CHEYENNE - “No one is going to like this bill,” predicted Senator Grant Larson, R-Jackson, chairman of the Senate Minerals, Business and Economic Committee, and speaking of Senate Fil

   SHERIDAN - I am a recycling fool, but recently I’ve been pondering the petro-wisdom of schlepping a flattened tuna fish can from Sheridan to Portland.

   Recycling has alw

   The Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Interim Committee ran out of time Friday to discuss Senate File 46, providing for the management of coal-bed methane waters.

  

   A recent report by State Geologist Ronald Surdam and seven co-authors has recommended a moratorium on coal-bed methane (CBM) development in the western reaches of the Powder River Basin.

   The recommended moratorium is due to two findings in the report “An e

   General Electric Energy signed a letter of intent today with the University of Wyoming, to build a $100 million advanced coal gasification

The debate over carbon sequestration at the 2008 Wyoming State Legislature is fairly restrained – solons say they are simply laying the uncontroversial groundwork for the day, not too far off, when energy producers nationwide will have to keep the CO2 from burning fossil fuels out of the atmosphe

   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 so

   “We’re doing just fine,” was the pronouncement by Gov. Dave Freudenthal in a recent interview on Wyoming Public Television, concerning our revenue picture entering the 2008 legislative budget session.

   It’s not the picture awash

        CHEYENNE -- At the behest of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, the Joint Ag Committee has approved a bill that