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With a handful of large-scale projects in the works, Wyoming’s wind power industry could finally take off. But financial and regulatory barriers make this type of development incredibly difficult.
In Colorado, the debate over pumping pressurized water underground to extract oil and natural gas has turned local and state governments into rivals. When one city banned fracking altogether, the state launched two lawsuits.
Inside Energy on Colorado State of Mind explaining the disruptive effects of distributed solar, and the public health impacts of oil and gas drilling.
There are some dramatic changes facing the way power is delivered in the U.S.
In Wyoming, coal culture is everywhere and in towns like Gillette, it powers the economy.
About forty-five percent of U.S. crude oil pipeline is more than fifty years old. Even pipeline laid into the ground in the 1920s and before (think the There Will Be Blood era) is still operating today.
Lee Hill and Dan Boyce from the Inside Energy team recently visited Colorado State of Mind to talk about the goals and challenges of this new reporting project and the shifting energy landscapes in Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming. Here’s a video of the show:
