Wyoming

CHEYENNE, Wyo.- Marking Wyoming’s groundbreaking effort as the first state to establish a regulatory framework for carbon capture and sequestration, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal is expected to take action on House Bill 89 and 90 (HEA 18 and 25) in a formal signing at noon on Tuesday, March 4, 2008, in the Capitol Rotunda.

Earlier this year, Freudenthal told the Joint Judiciary Interim Committee that the Wyoming Legislature had an opportunity to lead the nation in regulating long-term carbon capture and sequestration.    » read more »

CHEYENNE - The Wyoming Legislature needs to act to provide property tax relief to Wyoming seniors, Governor Dave Freudenthal said today in a news conference.

The program doesn’t necessarily have to be the one that Freudenthal proposed, but he said long-time Wyoming residents who want to live out their golden years in their homes need help.

“They’ve been given a number of proposals, they don’t have to do exactly mine, but if they’re serious about wanting to allow people to try and stay in their homes, they’re going to have to act,” he said.    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Pointing to the area's importance to the quality of life of residents in Sweetwater County and all of Wyoming, Gov. Dave Freudenthal expressed significant concerns about a proposal to drill two exploratory natural gas wells south of Rock Springs.

In comments on the scoping of Devon Energy’s Baxter Natural Gas Exploratory Proposal in the Little Mountain area south of Rock Springs, the Governor expressed concerns about the project’s impact on recreation, critical wildlife habitat, sensitive species, existing land management plans and air and water quality.    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Calling a proposal for oil and gas development in the Wyoming Range “monumental, far reaching and fraught with controversy,” Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal asked the U.S. Forest Service to consider withholding action on the proposal until the tools are in place to fully and effectively address the impact of development in the area.    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Wyoming Legislature has an opportunity to lead the nation in regulating long-term carbon capture and sequestration, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal told the Joint Judiciary Interim Committee today.

The committee is considering legislation that would give the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality the authority to regulate the long-term storage of carbon dioxide. The ability to store that CO2 safely over the long term could be critical    » read more »

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Mike McGrath said Wednesday that the United States Solicitor General has recommended (PDF) that the U.S. Supreme Court accept the state's water-rights case against Wyoming.

"This is good news," McGrath said. "This is an important step in getting Montana water users the water they're entitled to."    » read more »

January 4, 2008, McLean, VA - Today Fred Thompson announced the endorsement of Right to Life of Wyoming.    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A memorandum of agreement signed today by Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will allow the state a seat at the table earlier in the process when federal decisions are being made on threatened or endangered species listing issues.

Freudenthal joined Jay Slack, Acting Regional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mountain-Prairie Region, and Terry Cleveland, director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, in signing the document today in his formal office.    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A permit to appropriate ground water in order to produce coal-bed methane gas carries with it an expectation that the production of gas will occur in a timely fashion.

This week, State Engineer Pat Tyrrell asked for an explanation of how natural gas operations are putting water to "beneficial use" when little to no gas is being collected from some of their wells. The wells of interest are at least five years old, and are located in the Clear Creek and Crazy Woman Creek drainages of the Powder River Basin. A total of 296 wells are involved.    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - At an energy summit in West Virginia today, Governor Dave Freudenthal said the federal government must play a more pronounced role in fostering the development of clean coal technologies and in developing a cogent policy on the management of carbon dioxide.

"We’re not playing checkers here, this is serious business with serious consequences," Freudenthal said. "It is time for each of us to leave our fuel prejudices behind, mainly because we’re going to need every option that is available."    » read more »

November 20, 2007 -- Carson City – Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the governors of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming to outline and formulate a cooperative plan to ensure the continued coordinated support efforts for wildland fire fuels management and rehabilitation efforts between all four states.    » read more »

Cheyenne, Wyo. - As nations around the world seek out alternative energy sources, demand will continue for fuels like coal and nuclear energy that provide reliable baseload power, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal said today from where he is attending the World Energy Congress.    » read more »

12 November 2007 -- As the price of oil soars on world markets and demand for energy grows, energy companies are looking at so-called unconventional sources such as Canada's oil sands and the vast deposits of oil shale in the Rocky Mountain states. Geologists say half of the world's known oil shale lies deep underground in western Colorado, eastern Utah and southern Wyoming, amounting to more than one trillion barrels of potential oil. But this is rock, not liquid, and the very expensive trick is to convert it to useable liquid fuel.    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Expressing his concern that oil and gas development could affect important wildlife habitat in the Saratoga Valley and impact the area’s water quality and recreational value, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal asked the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to withhold leases from an upcoming sale. (For a map of the BLM's proposed leases in the Saratoga Valley, click here.)    » read more »

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