New BLM Rules to Limit Wind Power in Wyoming. By Ed Stoddard, Reuters, January 4, 2010. "Wind energy development is 'functionally precluded' in about 20% of Wyoming under new Bureau of Land Management guidelines laid out to protect a threatened bird, the governor's office said... The bird that has created all the flap is the sage grouse, an iconic bird of the U.S. west which is threatened by habitat destruction... About 23% of Wyoming is regarded as 'core habitat' vital to the bird's survival in the state and that 70% of those lands are under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Concerns about such regulations had already shrouded some wind projects in uncertainty, such as a 198-turbine $600 million wind farm proposed by Horizon Wind Energy among others."
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