For Wyoming coal’s future, a Gillette senator looks to the past
A Wyoming state senator wants to resurrect old dreams of a coal slurry pipeline to ship Powder River Basin coal.
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The Big Drain: Million pipeline proposal may be on the rocks, but the thirst for Green River water is unquenched
Flaming Gorge Reservoir has capacity to hold 3.5 million acre-feet altogether. That’s a big bucket, exceeded in the Colorado River Basin by only two others: Lake Mead, near Las Vegas, and that giant sandstone bowl of splish-splash in Utah called
…New rules for royalty-free gas flares up for comment
New rules for royalty-free gas flares up for comment
The Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments has issued its proposed policy changes regarding royalty-free flaring of natural gas. Written comments are due to the agency by the close of
…New rules for royalty-free gas flares up for comment
New rules for royalty-free gas flares up for comment
The Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments has issued its proposed policy changes regarding royalty-free flaring of natural gas. Written comments are due to the agency by the close of
…State royalties go up in smoke with gas flares
With Wyoming’s shale oil industry still very much in its infancy, a large volume of state-owned natural gas is going up in smoke, and along with it a small fortune in royalties that are supposed to fund our public schools.
According to the Office of State Lands and Investments — which has the fiduciary responsibility to maximize revenue from state-owned lands and minerals to fund Wyoming schools — estimates that 411,789 thousand cubic feet (mcf) of gas was flared from October 2009 to October 2011.
That’s an approximate loss of $200,000 to Wyoming’s K-12 students.