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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.
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi will join a panel discussion on U.S. health care reform at the Campbell County High School South Campus today. Senator Enzi, Dan Perdue of the Wyoming Hospital Association, Ken Clouston of the Wyoming Physical Therapy Association and Dr. Carol Hungerford of the Wyoming Dental Association will be speaking on health care reform issues, including the bill being introduced by the Finance Committee. Read More
While Wyoming’s upcoming large-scale wind farm projects have been getting much attention lately, many Wyoming ranchers and farmers are also “looking into the wind” for a solution to their rising electric costs. Advanced Energy Technology, of Cody, Wyoming, was able to help Carbon County resident Michael Kananen, who had seen a nearly 50% increase in his Beartooth Electric Co-Op rates, by installing a vertical axis wind turbine on his ranch. Read the Full Story.
The U.S. Census Bureau has released the 2008 state and county population estimates by age and sex and race and Hispanic origin. Data tables are available on the Economic Analysis Division’s (EAD) website, http://eadiv.state.wy.us and by using the following links. The EAD has also issued a press release that highlights some of the changes in Wyoming’s population for 2008.
Population estimates web page, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/pop.html
News release, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/POP_NEWSRLSE_ASR08.pdf
State age and sex, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/ST_AS08.htm
State race and Hispanic origin, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/ST_RO08.htm
County age and sex, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/CO_AS08.htm
County selected age groups, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/CO_AS08_GP.htm
County race and Hispanic origin, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/CO_RO08.htm
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