The U.S. Interior Department announced today that they have completed the environmental reviews of a proposed 3 gigawatt wind farm to be located on public, private, and state owned land in Carbon County, Wyoming. The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Farm could contain up to 1,000 turbines and produce electricity for about 1 million homes.
The company behind the project, Power Co. of Wyoming, first submitted its application for the wind farm in 2008. Now that the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management has completed it’s final environmental impact statement, Power Co’s wind farm proposal now moves to the public comment phase, so the company won’t be breaking ground anytime soon.
via: UPI
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The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced progress on two wind power fronts this week, with environmental reviews completed on both a massive Wyoming wind farm and on a large offshore area near Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management completed its final environmental impact statement, which will now be available for public comment. Power Co. of Wyoming, a unit of Anschutz Corp., first submitted an application to BLM for the wind farm in 2008.