Gillette Wyoming Blog

City of Gillette Mayor, Duane Evenson, supports a Wyoming Wind Energy Tax in his latest blog post.  Due to recent wind energy development projects in Campbell County, he expresses the need for Wyoming to treat all energy producers equally and not support unfair competition in the energy market.

The state Joint Revenue Committee voted against a tax on wind energy in November, and like Mayor Evenson, Governor Freudenthal supports a wind energy excise tax.  What are your thoughts?  Please post a comment and share your view on whether wind energy should be taxed differently than coal-fired plants and other electricity producers.

Will 2008 be the last record-breaking year for coal?

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A Rockville, Md., company has entered into a land lease agreement with Buckskin Mine to build an $80 million clean coal facility in the Powder River Basin.

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“Will this affect Gillette? I doubt it after talking to a long time employee of Rio Tinto here in Gillette. Most of the layoffs are in Australia in the ore mines as well as contractors. These coal mines are a cash cow for Rio.. Even if they do sell the mines in this region, it will only be because they net a nice profit.”

-SYDNEY, Australia Rio Tinto Group, one of the world’s largest miners with three mines in the Powder River Basin, will cut 14,000 jobs worldwide and reduce capital investment as part of new measures to reduce its debt amid waning demand for iron ore and other metals, the company said Wednesday.

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Last-minute jousts in the presidential campaign may have caused some coal miners in Wyoming and across the country to wonder if their jobs are in jeopardy now that Barack Obama is the nation’s president-elect.

“No, I don’t think the coal industry in Wyoming, and the utilities that rely on it, are going to be shutting down coal-fired power plants,” said Marion Loomis, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association.

Excerpt taken from Jackson Hole Star Tribune. Read the full story here:

http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2008/11/08/news/wyoming/7e4bbc746bc979d5872574fb0077d87c.txt

In yesterday’s news on the Gillette News Record, it was announced that Basin Electric got an air permit and was able to pull a loan for the development of the proposed development of the Dry Fork Station Coal Fired 385-Megawatt power plant. This will create about 75 permanent jobs and quite a few interm jobs during the construction phase. Read more about the article here: http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2007/10/18/news/news03.txt

I have a feeling that next spring is going to be a pretty big boom.

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