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Northern Laramie Range Alliance presents to the Legislative Task Force on Wind Energy, August 26 in Casper

Links to presentation and speaking notes attached

The NLRA stressed the need at the state or county level for policies that would put off-limits to industrial wind development mixed-use landscapes such as the Northern Laramies, where land holdings vary immensely in size and in the uses their owners make of them. This contrasts sharply with the high plains, where a few large and like-minded landholders can decide jointly to pursue industrialization using the wind association mechanism. The Alliance also urged that the Legislature consider providing, from a generation tax on electricity, much greater funding for conservation finance to enable ranchers to continue ranching without the need to go into the industrial wind-power business. The Alliance also pointed out that the scale and impact of industrial wind farms, such as the 100,000-acre "area of interest" identified by Wasatch Wind in the Northern Laramie Range, is so massive that its effects on neighboring property can't effectively be mitigated by common measures such as setbacks or screening.

The presentation, remarks, and discussion note may be downloaded from the Documents page.

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