In Wyoming, Debate Swirls on Taxing Wind Industry

The New York Times (Feb 22 2010)

1. With currents of powerful wind gusts whipping across its plains and plateaus, Wyoming has become a new frontier for the wind industry — the latest energy development for a state that only recently experienced a natural gas boom. Enlarge This Image Associated Press Turbines in Wyoming, where a bill under consideration in the Legislature would levy an excise tax on wind energy production. But in a place that is both cautious about such growth and interested in the potential benefits, some believe that those behind the wave of wind farms and turbines need to pay their fair share. A new bill being pushed by Gov. Dave Freudenthal would change the state’s renewable energy landscape by levying an excise tax on wind energy production, the first tax of its kind in the United States, energy experts say. (Read Full Article)

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