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Plans Made For Control Of Wyoming Gray-Wolf Population- See Story Page 3 & 4 -

Missouri To Get 91 Million Tons of Wyoming Coal

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Wyoming Braces For Potential Post Office Closures

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Former Herder Nikki Tresch named

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The Loss Of A Home Town Hero Deputy Bryan Gross

Converse County Sheriff’s Dep-uty Bryan Gross bravely entered the waters of the North Platte River on Thursday, July 28th to aid in the rescue of a young female struggling in the strong currents and unusually deep waters of the river between Yel-lowstone and the West Richards Bridge in Douglas.

Deputy Gross was unaccounted for after a headcount of rescuers, immediately following the res-cue of the young female.

A search ensued and three days later Converse County Sheriff Clint Becker issued the official word that on Sunday morning

July 31st, the body of Deputy Bryan Gross was located and pulled from the river near the Anderson bridge in Douglas, approximately 1.5 miles from where he entered the waters.

Search and Rescue teams and volunteers from around the state, including Converse County and Natrona County and the state of Montana worked endlessly for three days combing the river wa-ters and banks in the search for Deputy Gross. His co-workers included.

A memorial service for Deputy Bryan Gross was held on Satur-day August, 6th 2011 at 11:00

a.m. in the Douglas High School Auditorium.

The service was conducted with full honors for the fallen Con-verse County hero and a proces-sion followed.

Sheriff Clint Becker would like to thank everyone who had any hand in the the search for Dep-uty Gross.

...What a rescuer in the skies we now have, with wings of white and a golden badge....

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by Dustin Bleizeffer

A partnership between GE Energy and the University of Wyoming to build a coal-gasification research center to ensure the future viability of Wyoming coal has been “delayed” due to the lack of a federal energy policy. For the past year, utilities have told Wyoming officials that they can no longer include new coal facilities in their planning until the federal government decides exactly how it will regulate green-house gases and other pol-lutants.

The coal industry has lob-bied hard against the regula-tion of greenhouse gases.

Now with little to no growth for coal in the U.S. market, Wyoming coal producers are focused on shipping the domestic energy resource to China.

At a funding level of $100 million, the UW-GE High Plains Coal Gasification project was a relatively modest attempt to change the dynamic and to begin to add value to Wyoming coal by reducing its carbon foot-print, said Richard Garrett of the Wyoming Outdoor Council.

“It was something that for-mer Governor Freuden-thal, now a board member of Arch Coal, thought was crucial to the state’s future and our state legislature agreed,” Garrett told Wyo-File via email. “I would like to see our current governor and the state legislature step back up to the plate and tell GE — and Washington D.C. — that we do things differ-ently in Wyoming.”

Garrett added that Wyo-ming committed to a long-term effort in pursuing coal-gasification technology for Wyoming coal, and it ought to stick to that commitment.

“I think our congressional delegation needs to do the same thing,” Garrett added.

Lack Of Energy Policy ‘Delays’ Wyo-Gasification

ProjectConverse County Sheriff’s Deputy Bryan Gross and his companion/partner “Gus”.

Sunday August 7, 2011 The Glenrock Bird

Wyoming State Fair Attractions Include New Mercantile, Hay Show, Farmers Market

Governor Matt Mead anticipated at ribbon cutting for new Wyoming products MercantileCASPER, Wyo. – The Wyoming Business Council Agribusiness Division is hosting three oppor-tunities for Wyoming producers and vendors to sell or show off their goods during the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas, Aug. 13-20. In addition, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is anticipated to do the honors of cutting the ribbon on the new Wyoming Mercantile on the Midway of the Wyoming State Fairgrounds. The public is invited to join Gov. Mead for the ribbon cutting ceremony on Sat-urday, Aug. 20 at about 1:30 p.m. For over 12 years, Wyoming-made products have been sold at the State Fair. This year, 58 Wyoming companies will show-

case their products in the new Mercantile which is located on the midway. "The new building and new lo-cation are geared toward attract-ing more visitors to our store, and in turn will put more great Wyoming-made products in front of consumers," said Cindy Garretson-Weibel, Business Council Agribusiness Division director." The Mercantile will be open Monday through Friday of the fair from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. For more information about the new Wyoming Mercantile, contact Terri Barr at 307.777.2807 or [email protected].

The Agribusiness Division will host a hay show at the State Fairgrounds’ Ag and Natural Re-source Pavilion on Aug. 15-20, with the judging taking place on Aug. 16. Producers who have already received their forage analysis from the lab must deliv-er their samples, along with their Wyoming State Fair entry form and $2 per sample, to the Pavil-ion by 12 p.m. on Aug. 15. Win-ning producers with the top five Relative Feed Values (RFV) will automatically be entered in the World Dairy Expo Forage Super Bowl Challenge held in Madi-son, Wis., Oct. 4-8. According to Business Council Crop and Forage Program Manager, Donn Randall, the Business Council will also send the top five grass hay samples to the Super Bowl

to enter in the newly added Grass Hay category. Other Wyoming forage producers may also sub-mit a hay sample and business card to Randall for display in the Wyoming Premium Hay booth at the World Dairy Expo. For more information, contact Ran-dall at 307.777.6578 or [email protected]. People are encouraged to visit the 9th Annual Wyoming State Fair Farmers Market in the Event Tent, Aug. 20 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Over 10 vendors will be on hand with fresh produce, jams/jellies, skin care products, honey products, plants for sale, and oth-er value-added agriculture prod-ucts. For more information, con-tact Kim Porter at 307.777.6319 or [email protected].

This photo of a typical Wyoming “Traffic Jam” was taken by Jolynn Gardner (from her phone) on South Spring Canyon Road. Thanks for the photo and the “title” Jolynn! Only in Wyoming!! Ya Gotta Love it!

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Chesapeake Shows Big Heart To

Glenrock Boys & Girls Club

by Amanda Smith

Chesapeake spokeswoman Kelsely Campbell presented a pretty big check to Glenrock’s Boys and Girls Club last week.

The check, presented in the amount of $7500.00 will go directly towards the purchase of a MUCH needed van for the Glenrock club.

The club has been in dire need for better transportation.

Glenrock Boys and Girls Club kids stand out-side the Club’s van in gret anticipation for the new one!

At right, Kelsey Campbell of Chesapeake Energy presents a $7500 check to the Club. Photo © Amanda Smith


Gillette College women's basket-ball player and fellow Glenrock-ian Nikki Tresch was named on June 29th 2011 as Academic All-American by the National Junior College Athletic Association and was also recently selected to the Academic All-Region Team.

Tresch recently graduated from Gillette College this past spring with an Associate Degree and will continue her education and play basketball next year

at Montana State University-Northern, in Havre, MT.,She finished her two year career at Gillette College with a cum-mulative GPA of 3.6, qualifying her for the Exemplary Academic Achievement Award (3.6-3.7 gpa).

In addition to her All-American status, a member of Phi Theta Kappa, she was also named to the Region 9 All-Academic Team, and the Wyoming All

Conference team. Nikki was also a co-captain and finished in the top 25 in the nation in 3 pt FG percentage at the end of the season.

Tresch hails from the great town of Glenrock, Wyoming. Congratulations Nikki! Your hometown is proud of you!

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Former Herder Tresch Named Academic All-American

Pyatt’s Pieces

by Mike Pyatt “Why Purple?”No one knows for sure why he used purple as a background for the badge, but for ages purple had been the color of royalty, and in the General’s view, the com-mon soldier who sacrificed for his country deserved the same respect as a king. That badge permitted the wearer to pass sentinels unchallenged and to have his name inscribed in the Book of Merit. At that time, only 3 soldiers are known to have received the award-during the Revolutionary War-that is. It was at his headquarters in New-burgh, NY, that General George Washington created what we know today as the Purple Heart, on this date, in 1782. After the Revolution the badge fell into disuse until 1932. His order, on that day, read in part:

The General ever desirous to cherish virtuous ambition in his

soldiers as well as foster and en-courage every species of military merit, directs that whenever any singularly meritoriousAction in performed, the au-thor of it shall be permitted to wear on his facings, over his left breast, the figure of a heart in purple cloth or silk edged with narrow lace or binding. Not only instances of unusual gallantry but also extraordinary fidelity and essential service in any way shall meet with due reward.

In 1931General Douglas Ma-cArthur confidentially reopened the work on a new design of Washington’s original, after a draft bill in 1927 to revive the Badge of Military Merit was withdrawn for unknown reasons in 1928. In 1931 Ms. Elizabeth Will was named to redesign the newly revived medal to be issued on the bicentennial of George Washington’s birth.The order of the Purple Heart is now awarded to members of the armed services who have been wounded or killed in action. The medal has a bronze heart bearing Washington’s silhouette in its purple center with the Washing-ton coat-of-arms at the top.In his inimitable manner of speech, the General penned in his order creating the medal, “The road to glory in a patriot army and a free country is thus open to all.” In the author’s hum-ble opinion, it is one of the most striking and intricate medals to be worn. My father earned his in the Battle of the Bulge. No doubt

many of my readers have earned this distinguished medal or know someone who has one. Perhaps it was a father, grandfather, uncle, brother or sister, husband, wife or friend.The Purple Heart has undergone many changes regarding the cri-teria for being awarded. In 1942, for example, President Franklin Roosevelt made it available to be awarded posthumously to any member of the military killed on or after December 6, 1941.How many Purple Hearts have been awarded? Due to incon-sistent record keeping since 1932, an accurate number is un-known, however, it is estimated that about 1.7 million have been awarded to date. As long as there are wars, declared or otherwise, the award will continue. And, hat’s off to all who proudly wear or display this “Badge of Hon-or”. The company that assembles the Purple Heart today said it in-volves about 100 separate steps. “You can’t manufacture the Purple Heart,” says Tom Tuck-er, West Point graduate, retired military, and owner of Graco Awards. The hearts are forged from 24 carat gold plated brass. That seems appropriate to me. What do you think? for comments or questions to Mike. Please email: [email protected]

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Wyoming State Fair Attractions Include New Mercantile, Hay Show, Farmers Market

Governor Matt Mead anticipated at ribbon cutting for new Wyoming products Mercantileto enter in the newly added Grass Hay category. Other Wyoming forage producers may also sub-mit a hay sample and business card to Randall for display in the Wyoming Premium Hay booth at the World Dairy Expo. For more information, contact Ran-dall at 307.777.6578 or [email protected]. People are encouraged to visit the 9th Annual Wyoming State Fair Farmers Market in the Event Tent, Aug. 20 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Over 10 vendors will be on hand with fresh produce, jams/jellies, skin care products, honey products, plants for sale, and oth-er value-added agriculture prod-ucts. For more information, con-tact Kim Porter at 307.777.6319 or [email protected].

Plans Made For Wyoming Control of Gray-Wolf Population

by Bill McCarthy

CHEYENNE – Wyoming and federal wildlife managers have agreed to a plan allowing the state to control its gray-wolf population.The governor and U.S. Depart-ment of Interior officials an-nounced today that they have agreed on the final elements of a proposed plan.“Wolves are recovered in Wyo-ming; let’s get them off the En-dangered Species List,” Mead said in a statement. The plan will “ensure a stable and sus-tainable population of wolves in Wyoming.”“The recovery of the gray wolf serves as a great example of how the Endangered Species Act can work to keep im-periled animals from sliding into extinction,” said Inte-rior Secretary Ken Salazar. “I look forward to working with Wyoming to implement this responsible management ap-proach guided by science.”There is still a long way to go in the process before the state can take control of the recov-ered species, however. Gray wolves will have the protec-tions of the Endangered Spe-cies Act for many months to come.The plan will be on a lengthy federal rulemaking path to-ward becoming a U.S. Fish and Wildlife regulation.A proposed rule to take wolves

off of the Endangered Species List will be subject to public and peer review as part of the formal rulemaking process.The governor is also hoping to prevent conservationist and environmental groups from taking the plan to court.Mead wants the U.S. Congress to eliminate judicial review of the plan. Rep. Cynthia Lum-mis, R-Wyo., has inserted a rider in the pending Interior Department appropriations bill that would do that.A similar rider was passed by Congress for the plans put forth by Montana and Idaho.“For too long wolf manage-ment has been run by the courts,” Mead said. “We need Wyoming people to have a say in what happens in our state and a congressionally ap-proved plan is the best way to ensure that we advance this ef-fort.”The Wyoming Legislature must also create a wolf-man-agement plan that conforms with the plan before wolves can be removed from the en-dangered list.Wyoming has tussled with federal officials and conserva-tionists for many years over its plan to treat wolves as trophy game animals in the area of Yellowstone National Park but as predators elsewhere in the state. Predators can be killed on sight. Trophy game are killed only through state regu-

lated hunting.“For years ranchers and sheep producers have been asked to sacrifice and they have. We have lost significant numbers of elk and moose, and we have not had a say in the manage-ment of an animal inside Wyo-ming,” Mead said.Under the proposal, Wyoming will maintain at least 100 wolves and 10 breeding pairs outside of Yellowstone Na-tional Park.Estimates are that there are about 340 wolves outside of Yellowstone now.The plan calls for an area in Western Wyoming where wolves would be considered protected trophy game dur-ing key migration periods and treated as a predator at other times of the year.The flexible trophy-game man-agement area would include an area near the Wyoming-Idaho border south of Jackson and north of Afton.The area would be managed as a trophy game management area from Oct. 15 to the end of February. In all other months wolves would be managed as predators.That is to allow migration of wolves for healthy breeding.

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The Wyoming Wolf Management Proposal map outlines the areas where wolves will be protected under the new plan.

Governor Mead And Us Fish And Wildlife Finalize A Wolf Management Proposal

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Matt Mead and representatives from the US Fish and Wildlife Service have finalized the ele-ments of a proposed plan that will ensure a stable and sustain-able population of wolves in Wyoming. This plan is the cul-mination of many years of work between Wyoming stakeholders and federal officials. “This is far from the end of this process, but I think we have come up with something that fits with Wyoming’s values and economy,” Governor Mead said. “For years ranchers and sheep producers have been asked to sacrifice and they have. We have lost significant numbers of elk and moose, and we have not had a say in the management of an animal inside Wyoming. It is time for that to change and I ap-preciate Secretary Salazar and the US Fish and Wildlife Service working with us. Wolves are re-covered in Wyoming; let’s get them off the Endangered Species List.” Under the proposed plan Wyo-ming will maintain at least 100 wolves and 10 breeding pairs outside of Yellowstone Na-

tional Park. The Trophy Game Management Area would ex-tend about 50 miles to the south from its current location near the Wyoming/Idaho border. The ex-pansion area would be managed as a Trophy Game Management Area from October 15th to the end of February. For all other months wolves would be man-aged as predators in the exten-sion area. The proposed plan requires ap-proval of the State Legislature. Governor Mead has said he wants Congressional approval of this plan. “For too long wolf management has been run by the courts, we need Wyoming people to have a say in what hap-pens in our state and a congres-sionally approved plan is the best way to ensure that we advance this effort. “This is an important step to-wards removing wolves from the Endangered Species List, but there are many more steps to come. We appreciate the work of stakeholders in Wyoming, and we appreciate the work of Senator Barrasso, Congressman Lummis and Senator Enzi,” Governor Mead said.

ConservationCorner

Public, Private Partnership Supports

“Pathway to Water Quality” at State Fairgrounds

DOUGLAS – A public-private partnership between public conservation agencies and the state’s energy industry is helping to develop a "Pathway to Water Quality" at the Wyoming State Fairgrounds.

When complete, the project will promote cost effective and proactive water quality manage-ment practices that will assist producers in using market-based approaches to conservation and innovative technologies that can put conservation on the land. The project was developed by the Southeast Wyoming Resource Conservation and Development Council and the Wyoming Asso-ciation of Conservation Districts, with funding support from the Wyoming Department of Envi-ronmental Quality, USDA Natu-ral Resources Conservation Ser-vice, Encana Oil and Gas (USA) Inc., and Cameco Resources.

"Our mining operations are just a few miles from Douglas and our headquarters is in Cheyenne, so supporting the Pathway to Wa-ter Quality on the fairgrounds is a logical extension of our focus on protecting the state's water re-sources that are vital to us and to everyone in Wyoming," said Ca-meco Resources President Paul Goranson.

The nearly $100,000 project will be centralized around a pathway to guide fairgoers and others to a myriad of water quality exhibits and demonstration sites. Each exhibit will be complete with interpretive signage to provide educational information about how each innovative specific management practice will pro-vide water quality benefits.

“This project will essentially pro-vide a living, outdoor classroom and educational tool for more

than 50,000 people per year to learn about innovative and ef-fective management practices that maintain or improve water quality,” said Randy Teeuwen, Encana community relations advisor. “The people of Encana live and work in Wyoming and care deeply about water quality and conservation. We are proud to be a partner in this important project.”

The Wyoming State Fair is a large stage to showcase Path-ways to Water. “More than 50,000 people visit the state fair every year, which provides a unique opportunity to show-case a variety of innovative conservation approaches and technologies,” said Wyoming Association Conservation Dis-tricts Executive Director Bobbie Frank.

A partnership between GE Energy and the University of Wyoming to build a coal-gas-ification research center to en-sure the future viability of Wy-oming coal has been “delayed” due to the lack of a federal en-ergy policy. For the past year, utilities have told Wyoming of-ficials that they can no longer include new coal facilities in their planning until the federal government decides exactly how it will regulate greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

The coal industry has lobbied hard against the regulation of greenhouse gases.

Now with little to no growth for coal in the U.S. market, Wyo-ming coal producers are fo-cused on shipping the domestic energy resource to China.

At a funding level of $100 mil-lion, the UW-GE High Plains Coal Gasification project was a relatively modest attempt to change the dynamic and to be-gin to add value to Wyoming coal by reducing its carbon footprint, said Richard Gar-rett of the Wyoming Outdoor Council.

“It was something that former Governor Freudenthal, now a board member of Arch Coal, thought was crucial to the state’s future and our state leg-islature agreed,” Garrett told WyoFile via email. “I would like to see our current governor and the state legislature step back up to the plate and tell GE — and Washington D.C. — that we do things differently in Wyoming.”

Garrett added that Wyoming committed to a long-term ef-fort in pursuing coal-gasifica-tion technology for Wyoming coal, and it ought to stick to that commitment.

“I think our congressional del-egation needs to do the same thing,” Garrett added.

Here’s Gov. Matt Mead’s press release in its entirety:

GE Energy and the University of Wyoming have announced that the joint work on the High Plains Gasification-Advanced Technology Center has been delayed. The original project investment plan anticipated more progress toward certainty in the future of federal energy policy. Future investments will be paced by the development of clear federal energy policy.

Governor Mead is disappointed about GE Energy’s decision to pause development of the High Plains Gasification-Advanced Technology Center project un-

til uncertainty around coal uti-lization is reduced. However, Governor Mead feels this deci-sion and possibly other energy sector decisions to delay proj-ects are not unexpected given the lack of a federal energy policy.

“Capital from the private sec-tor only flows to large and ambitious projects when there is reasonable regulatory, legal and financial certainty,” Gov-ernor Mead said. “This is a real world example of the lo-cal impact of the federal gov-ernment’s failure to provide a policy path forward for energy use in America. An energy policy must include the respon-sible use of our coal resources. Without a clear policy, inves-tors and developers do not have certainty and cannot plan for risk, which is critical in making decisions to build modern, ef-ficient plants.”

“GE technology is ready to provide a cleaner coal solution for America and for the world. When government policy and economic realities are aligned in the U.S., we plan to be a leader in cleaner coal technolo-gies,” said Keith White, Gen-eral Manager of GE Energy’s gasification business. “We value our partnership with the University of Wyoming and we will reassess the environ-ment in 18 to 24 months.”

UW President Tom Buchanan said, “The University of Wyo-ming (UW) stands ready to proceed with continued work to advance the HPG-ATC. In any business relationship, we acknowledge the need for all parties to be comfortable prior to moving forward. The agreement between the State of Wyoming, GE Energy and UW contemplates significant milestones in the project devel-opment.”

The High Plains Gasification-Advanced Technology Center is a research and technology center focused on looking at coal gasification solutions for coal from the Powder River Basin and other parts of Wyo-ming. Wyoming produces 40% of the nation’s coal and the state provides about 10% of the nation’s energy.

“America and Wyoming have the leadership capacity, the technology prowess and the private capital availability to wisely put our energy re-sources to productive use but we are strangled by uncertainty created by the energy policy vacuum in Washington DC,” Governor Mead said.

Lack Of Energy Policy ‘Delays’ Wyoming

Gasification Project

by Bill McCarthy

CHEYENNE – Peabody En-ergy said today that it has a six-year contract to deliver Wyoming Powder River Ba-sin coal to Missouri for elec-tricity generation.

Peabody Energy and Ameren Corporation have entered into an agreement to provide 91 million tons of low-sulfur coal to serve multiple elec-tricity generating plants in Missouri through 2017.

“The contract represents a major commitment between the largest Powder River Ba-sin producer and the largest Powder River Basin custom-er,” said Gregory H. Boyce, Peabody chairman and chief executive.

Ameren Missouri serves 1.2

million electric and 126,000 natural gas customers in cen-tral and eastern Missouri.

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Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) is the world’s largest private-sector coal compa-ny, with 2010 sales of 246 million tons and nearly $7 billion in revenues.

Its coal products fuel 10 per-

cent of all U.S. electricity generation and 2 percent of worldwide electricity.

Extension of the contract be-yond 2017 is also possible

Missouri To Get 91 Million Tons Of Wyoming Coal


Washington, D.C. – Wyo-ming Governor Matt Mead and representatives from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice announced today a pro-posed agreement that allows Wyoming greater control in managing local wolf popula-tions. U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., released the following statement: “I appreciate Governor Mead’s hard work to come up with a so-lution that works for both Wy-oming and for the Department of Interior,” Enzi said. “Wolf

populations have exceeded all recovery goals. Their popula-tion growth is endangering our state’s wildlife and livestock industry. We cannot allow that to continue, and it is time to re-move Endangered Species Act protection from these predators in Wyoming in the same way that protection was removed for wolves in Idaho and Mon-tana. Removing wolves from the Endangered Species List has been a priority of mine since I came to the Senate. Although the deal must be ap-proved by the Wyoming State Legislature, I am grateful to

see movement on an issue that has limited the state’s ability to address a local problem for so many years. “Rep. Lummis and Senator Barrasso also deserve credit for their work on this issue. Rep. Lummis was able to use her seat on the House Appropria-tions Committee to get the wolf language included in the Inte-rior Appropriations bill. Sena-tor Barrasso has been using his committee assignments to push this cause as well.”

NEWS FROM THE NEST



Enzi Encouraged By Wolf Management Agreement

by Dustin Bleizeffer This week El Paso Corp. will begin shipping Wyoming and Colorado natural gas in the new 42-inch diameter Ruby Pipeline connecting Rockies gas pro-ducers to customers along the Oregon and northern California coasts.

Cutting across 680 miles from Opal, Wyo., to Malin, Ore., spawned a lot of controversy about potential damage to wild-life and the environment. Now that construction is over, howev-er, concern has shifted to include what’s in the pipeline: “The Bay Area Gets Fracked.”

Hydraulic fracturing, or “frack-ing,” involves pumping millions of gallons of water — and small-er volumes of multiple chemicals — into deep gas- and oil-bearing formations under high pressure to bust open pathways for the pe-troleum to flow. The concern is for the potential to contaminate drinking water which resides in shallow aquifers perforated by sealed oil and gas wells.

Wyoming oil and gas leaders — and some state lawmakers — worry that opposition to hy-draulic fracturing has become so entrenched that some areas of the country may someday demand “non-fracked” natural gas and oil. If there were such a market, less than 10 percent of Wyoming’s natural gas produc-tion would qualify.

Rather than dismiss this type of fuel grading, some in the industry say they would gladly serve a boutique natural gas market — if the customer is willing to pay a premium. Wy-oming’s coal-bed methane gas, for example, does not require fracking in the sense that much of America understands the technology.

“Everybody laughs when they hear about it because it’s an absurd notion,” Casper oil and gas geologist Gene George, of Gene George & Associates, told WyoFile. “But I’m sure there are people out there who are serious about it. And when somebody is willing to pay more for your product, then you’re going to figure out a way to do it.”

George said Wyoming gas producers — if they could ship gas across the Pacific — would love to sell their product to customers in Japan, which

is now paying more than three times the selling price in the United States.

The vast majority of natural gas produced in the Rockies relies on fracking technology. Fracking is credited for boost-ing the nation’s recoverable oil and gas reserves, launching drilling booms in North Da-kota (shale oil), Pennsylvania (shale gas), New York (shale gas), Louisiana (shale gas) and Texas (shale gas and shale oil).

This new drilling boom, along with fracking, was the subject of the highly popular film doc-umentary “Gasland,” which is credited by many for bring-ing fracking to the forefront of the national energy debate. During the past year the battle between industry and some environmental groups over fracking has made it to prime-time, most recentlylampooned by Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert.

Rob Hurless advised former Wyoming Gov. Dave Freud-enthal on energy policy, and is now advising Gov. Matt Mead. He said that while a new “non-fracked” natural gas market is unlikely, the national debate over fracking has at least got more Americans thinking and talking about the energy sup-ply chain.

“There’s going to be some froth in it. But on balance, it’s probably not a bad thing to think about energy supply,” Hurless told WyoFile. “Hope-fully, the net impact over time will be positive.”

Wyoming sportsmen and con-servationists grumble when California utilities brag about their clean-burning natural gas without acknowledging the impacts of extracting that gas in the Rockies. Natural gas extraction has had measurable impacts on big game and air quality in the Cowboy State.

But customers on the West Coast, in the Midwest and on the East Coast are becoming more aware of where natural gas comes from and the po-tential impacts of the indus-try. Simply put, more people are engaged in discussions about domestic energy, and that could eventually drive the United States toward a differ-ent portfolio of fuels.

“We’re working to ban frack-ing from shale gas,” said Emi-ly Wurth, water program direc-tor for Food & Water Watch in Washington D.C. “I don’t see a problem with informed con-sumers requesting their energy coming from a certain place.”

Wurth said she is not aware of

any movement to demand that utilities account for how much of their electricity and heating gas comes from fracked and non-fracked gas. However, she said customers can and should determine which products they want to use.

“We think our drinking water is a critical resource. It’s very reasonable for consumers to re-evaluate what fuels they want to use,” said Wurth.

Touting the greenness or frackiness of fuels to serve a finicky American consumer could get very messy, however.

How could a company demand a premium for non-fracked coal-bed methane gas, for ex-ample, without offering a dis-count for the large volume of drinking water the industry has wasted in the Powder River Basin? Will wind energy com-panies be forced to count and advertise the number of birds that meet their demise against their blades?

Powder River Basin coal com-panies do not topple mountains into river valleys to produce coal. But are they really go-ing to market their product as “non-mountaintop removal” coal?

There’s a danger that too much emphasis in the fracking de-bate will be placed on the tech-nology itself, drowning out the more arcane discussion about effective industry practices and regulatory oversight. Baseline water quality sampling, for example, should be standard practice prior to fracking, ac-cording to Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commis-sion supervisor Tom Doll. Yet his agency has not insisted that it be made mandatory in Wyo-ming.

To take fracking away from the oil and gas industry would be like taking shovels away from coal miners. It doesn’t make practical sense. Fight-ing to protect our health and our air, soil, land and wildlife shouldn’t stifle the technology that provides us not only elec-tricity and transportation fuels, but also the building blocks of laptops, iPhones and 7-ply tires. In fact, it’s the oil and gas industry’s rapidly advanc-ing technology that will make possible large-scale carbon se-questration.

Enzi: New Health Care Law is Already Driving Up Insurance Premiums

Washington, D.C. – During a hearing yesterday on health in-surance premiums, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Ranking Member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said that the new health care law passed last year is already driving up insurance premiums. He said that Congress should work on lowering health care costs for in-dividuals and small businesses. “As predicted, the new health law is already driving up health insurance premiums,” said Sena-tor Enzi. “The authors of the new health care law do not want to acknowledge that the reason premiums are going up is be-cause the law they enacted is driving health care costs up. This result should come as no surprise to anyone. More than two years

ago, the Congressional Budget Office told us that the new health care law was going to increase premiums for individuals and families by 10 to 13 percent. This equals a $2100 increase for families.” Senator Enzi noted that the Ad-ministration’s Chief Actuary at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a report last week that said that insurance premiums are esti-mated to increase by 9.4 percent in 2014. According to the actu-ary, this increase was 4.4 per-cent higher than it would have otherwise been, as a result of the new health care law. Enzi said that giving states or the fed-eral government the authority to deny premium increases will do nothing to address the expensive new benefit mandates, billions

of dollars in taxes on drugs and medical devices, and unsustain-able cuts to Medicare payments, which were all part of the new health care law, and which all drive up private sector health care costs. “We must examine how the specific provisions in the new law are increasing premiums and determine how to replace those provisions with measures that could actually lower costs for individuals and small busi-nesses,” Senator Enzi said. “We also need to enact provisions that will actually lower health care costs, help employers and allow Americans to keep the plans they want, rather than being forced to buy the plan that a government bureaucrat thinks best meets their needs.”

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“Capital from the private sec-tor only flows to large and ambitious projects when there is reasonable regulatory, legal and financial certainty,” Gov-ernor Mead said. “This is a real world example of the lo-cal impact of the federal gov-ernment’s failure to provide a policy path forward for energy use in America. An energy policy must include the respon-sible use of our coal resources. Without a clear policy, inves-tors and developers do not have certainty and cannot plan for risk, which is critical in making decisions to build modern, ef-ficient plants.”

“GE technology is ready to provide a cleaner coal solution for America and for the world. When government policy and economic realities are aligned in the U.S., we plan to be a leader in cleaner coal technolo-gies,” said Keith White, Gen-eral Manager of GE Energy’s gasification business. “We value our partnership with the University of Wyoming and we will reassess the environ-ment in 18 to 24 months.”

UW President Tom Buchanan said, “The University of Wyo-ming (UW) stands ready to proceed with continued work to advance the HPG-ATC. In any business relationship, we acknowledge the need for all parties to be comfortable prior to moving forward. The agreement between the State of Wyoming, GE Energy and UW contemplates significant milestones in the project devel-opment.”

The High Plains Gasification-Advanced Technology Center is a research and technology center focused on looking at coal gasification solutions for coal from the Powder River Basin and other parts of Wyo-ming. Wyoming produces 40% of the nation’s coal and the state provides about 10% of the nation’s energy.

“America and Wyoming have the leadership capacity, the technology prowess and the private capital availability to wisely put our energy re-sources to productive use but we are strangled by uncertainty created by the energy policy vacuum in Washington DC,” Governor Mead said.

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It Will Take Balls We Haven’t Got Someone sent me an e-mail the other day asking what I would do to change the national debt crisis. As complicated as it is our debt comes down to some basic premises. When you’re having a cash flow problem you don’t continue to spend irresponsibly. It’s here that we get into a sticky wicket because one person’s responsible spend-ing is another’s frivolous pursuit. So I quickly began to pound the keyboard with my answer. First we quit giving money to countries going bankrupt and who hate the United States and everything we stand for. Second we make a policy that for every illegal alien that we find in this country his or her country of origin gets no aid from the US. See how fast the offending countries fix the problem without us having to spend money to build walls and post our military on the borders. Third, if our national debt ever exceeds 2 percent of our gross national product every elected official loses their job. See how fast they fix it.

All government officials are required to have the same health care as the general populace- bet that problem would be solved in a week. No career politicians. Ever. End of story. No lobbying our government officials by big business. Flat tax paid by all. Those who spend more pay more. Those who don’t have much to spend pay less. No IRS, no income tax returns. That branch of government alone would lessen big government by at least half. But it would take some elected officials with the balls to do it, and right now I don’t see it happening unless the populace revolts. I’m just sayin…..

I’ll RideI’ll ride across the prairies;

I’ll ride where no man goes.I’ll ride to destinations;

thru rain and sun and snow.

I’ll ride atop the mountains;to the valley far below.

I’ll ride across the nation;Wyoming’s where I’ll go.

I’ll ride my faithful ponyacross the great divide.

I’ll ride the lonesome trail;on down the other side.

I’ll ride until I’m feebleand the last coyote’s cried;

then when I’m called up yonder,you can bet your boots I’ll ride.

I’ll ride to gather cattleacross this western land.

I’ll ride south from the Yellow-stone;

to the flowin’ Rio Grande.

I’ll ride across the desertamidst the dunes of sand.I’ll ride to destinations;

where a cowboy makes a stand.

I’ll ride through grassy mead-ows;

where the wild flowers bloom.I’ll ride the western prairies;

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The Dog (or rather “Horse”) Days of Summer

This photograph of horses coming in from a hard days work, was created just outside Belfry Montana on the Beartooth River Ranch. The ranch is a working guest ranch in Montana and boasts not only an incredible atmosphere of typical “dude ranch” fun, but also carry’s with it a beauty of the landscape from mountains to high desert floors. Photograph titled “The Horse Days of Summer” created and copyrighted: Amanda Smith. Do you have a photo you’d like to submit of your summer days? Please send to: [email protected]

A “Pinch” of Open Range Magazine’s Bunkhouse Recipes

Ranch PicklesFill a large jar (about one gallon) with small to medium cucumbers. Add two tablespoons of salt, and a large bunch of dill. Fill the jar with boiling water, put the lid on, and set in the sun for about two weeks.

After the pickles were gone, the cook would sometimes add some hard boiled eggs to the pickle juice and let it set for a week or so, and offer the cowboys another treat.

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Sawat dii! Hello in Thai from the library! Visit our Mango Foreign Language database on line. Find out how to get connected. There are over 80 languages to choose from. Learn from the comfort of your own home. This database comes to us courtesy of the state library. All the excitement during sum-mer reading is still being felt. On to our next adventure!! The dog days of summer are upon us and that means, BOOK SALE!! Starting August 1 we will be starting our annual book sale. It will go on the whole month. It’s the right time of year, one could be in the comfort of an air con-ditioned library and searching for just the right book, there’s no better way to spend August! All proceeds go into the library fund to help with much needed equipment and misc. things that the library may use that is not budgeted for. The Children/Young Adult areas will take the month of August to start planning programs for this coming school year. Story time will start up Wednesday, Sep-tember 21 at 10:00. For Read Me A Story:

August 6- August 13: The Day Dirk Yeller Came To Town by Mary Casanova. Pick up the phone and dial 436-2353 to lis-ten to a good story.

It was a welcomed change to have the youth read for Read Me A Story this summer. I know they really enjoy doing it. We’re on the web at http:wyldweb.state.wy.us/glen or at www.conversecountyli-brary.org. Our phone number is 436-2573. Fax number is 436-8525. Be sure to “friend” us on facebook!! Just look up Glen-rock Library.

by Ruffin Prevost Like so many things in Wyo-ming, delivering the mail tends to require more time, covering more miles, enduring more isolation and spending more money than almost any other state.

So it’s no surprise that Wyo-ming has quite a few post of-fices on a list released today by the U.S. Postal Service de-tailing outposts that are being studied for potential closure. Many of these post offices serve only a few people and are located far from anything else. But then again, isn’t that true for so much of our state?

Advocates of closures could certainly make a compelling case about the skewed cost-benefit ratio of keeping these post offices open. But for those living in one of these commu-nities, a post office is often the hub of civic affairs — a place to run into a neighbor you might only see once every couple of months, and only then when you’re both check-ing the mail.

There’s certainly something wonderful about being able to mail a letter from Van Tassell, Wyo. (pop. 3) to Key West, Fla. and paying the same post-age as a letter from Manhattan to Brooklyn. But that one-size-fits-all approach which has made our postal system such a unifying part of American culture is also part of why it struggles to cover costs.

For plenty more on the finan-cial woes of the USPS, check out Devin Leonard’s fantas-tic May 26 story in Business Week, The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse. As bad as you might think it is for the USPS financially, the reality is prob-ably worse.

In the meantime, check the list below to see if your neighbor-hood post office might be on the chopping block.

Contact Ruffin Prevost at 307-213-9321 or [email protected].

Office City Zip CodeALVA ALVA 82711ARVADA ARVADA 82831AUBURN AUBURN 83111CAPITOL STA CHEY-ENNE 82001CROWHEART CROW-HEART 82512DEAVER DEAVER 82421DEVILS TOWER DEVILS TOWER 82714DIXON DIXON 82323EDGERTON EDGER-TON 82635EMBLEM EMBLEM 82422FAIRVIEW FAIRVIEW 83119FRONTIER FRON-TIER 83121FT WARREN AFB FT WARREN AFB 82001GRANGER GRANG-ER 82934GROVER GROVER 83122HARTVILLE HART-VILLE 82215HAWK SPRINGS HAWK SPRINGS 82217HORSE CREEK HORSE CREEK 82061HUNTLEY HUNTLEY 82218HYATTVILLE HYATT-VILLE 82428JAY EM JAY EM 82219LANCE CREEK LANCE CREEK 82222LEITER LEITER 82837LINCH LINCH 82640LOST SPRINGS LOST SPRINGS 82224MANVILLE MAN-VILLE 82227OPAL OPAL 83124OTTO OTTO 82434PARKMAN PARK-MAN 82838POWDER RIVER POWDER RIVER 82648RECLUSE RECLUSE 82725ROBERTSON ROBERT-SON 82944SAVERY SAVERY 82332TIE SIDING TIE SID-ING 82084VAN TASSELL VAN TAS-SELL 82242VETERAN VETERAN 82243WYARNO WYARNO 82845

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Hi, my name is “Sassy” and I’m the new straight talk columnist for The Glenrock Bird. I hail from the great state of Oregon and LOVE to give good ad-vice, shot right from the hip. So submit your questions, what-ever they may be, and I’ll an-swer them. But be forewarned! When I say I shoot from the hip, I mean I shoot from the hip. So be ready for a good case of reali-ty! I’ll look forward to receiving and answering your questions. You can email me: [email protected].

Question submitted from a young Glenrockian gal who wishes to remain anonymous (but said we could say where she’s from!)

Q: Ok so I know my boyfriend has been checking out another chick but I really love this guy and I dont know if I shoukd ig-

nore it and let him do his thing or bring it up to him. I just dont want to jeaopardize my relation-ship with him

S: Ok first of all I will tell you I’m going to give you the PG version because this topic strikes a nerve with me.

At what point in your relation-ship did you decide that being disrespected by someone you love and supposedly loves you is less important than “him doing his thing?”

Rule of thumb, always call him on it. It doesn’t have to be a confrontation, but something as simple as “Wow, she’s cute. I see you think so too.” is all that is needed.

However! The mere fact that it bothers you enough to write

The Bird Book ReviewBottom of the Hill Publishing, Memphis, Tennessee, is proud to announce the publication of the third book in a trilogy by Dave P. Fisher entitled The Poudre Can-yon Saga. Book number three of the tril-ogy, The Men of Poudre Can-yon continues the exciting ad-ventures of the Pelletier family. Reader response to Books 1 and 2 has been enthusiastic with high praise for the story quality of the novels. Now, The Men of Poudre Canyon has been released with readers quickly taking the novel to #1 in Kindle Westerns. Anyone who enjoys the excite-ment of the wild mountain coun-try, the frontier, and the Old West will be thrilled by The Poudre Canyon Saga.The stories are centered in the Wyoming and Northern Colo-rado area. Back Cover to The Men From Poudre Canyon: Atlanta carpet-bagger Justin Hornsworth finds himself in Fort Collins and eye-ing Jean Pelletier’s home. Hav-ing successfully murdered and swindled his way to wealth in

the war weary south he sees no reason why a backwoodsman like Pelletier would offer any resistance to his plan to take the ranch. He didn’t know Jean Pel-letier. When Jean and his sons put an end to Hornsworth’s plan the carpetbagger takes a more vicious trail bent on destroying

the man he has come to hate. In a vengeance ridden move his gang kidnaps four of the Pelle-tier women from Jean and An-dre’s families with the intention of selling them to a white slaver in New Orleans. Believing he has dealt a killing blow to Jean

Pelletier he revels in his victory not realizing that when you take on one Pelletier you take them all on. Hornsworth’s grave just needed to be filled in the day the men from Poudre Canyon took to his trail. Book number one, entitled Where Free Men Gather features cover art by acclaimed Chey-enne pastel artist Mike Beeman. The story details the adventures of the Pelletier brothers, free French trappers, who flee Can-ada after the death of Claude LeSueur, the son of a wealthy fur merchant. The two make their way into the American West where free trappers gather and beaver shine. The brothers fit easily into the world of the In-dian and the mountain men, until their past threatens the new life they have so carefully built. Book number two, entitled White Grizzly begins thirty years after the conclusion of book one, and follows the activities of Andre Pelletier, who has become White Grizzly, a Crow War Chief. The world of the mountain man and the Indian is rapidly changing

and Andre finds himself leading a war band in the Powder River country, fighting a war he’s not sure he can win. Dave P. Fisher, who now resides in Washington state, is descend-ed from mountain men, Voya-geurs, pioneers and explorers. Dave is originally from Oregon, and has worked cattle and ridden saddle broncs in rodeos. His real life adventures have taken him across the wilds of Alaska and the Rocky mountains of Mon-tana, Wyoming and Colorado as a hunting guide and horsepacker. Dave’s novels, short stories, non-fiction articles and cowboy poet-ry have been internationally pub-lished. He was awarded the Will Rogers medallion Award for out-standing western fiction, and his short stories have won numerous Readers Choice Awards. Fisher’s books on the Bottom of the Hill Publishing imprint can be ordered from any retailer of books as well as Amazon and Kindle and Nook ebooks. More can be learned about Fisher at his website: www.davepfisher.com

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Sassy for advice tells me you are smart enough to know it’s BS!

As far as you worrying about jeop-ardizing your relationship, he is doing a fine job of that for the both of you.

So next time you find him check-ing this “chick” out, your words to him need to be “Look at her again and you’ll be going home with her.”

And dearheart... if he wants so badly to be with this other chick... why the heck are you still with him? You can’t make someone love you, sister!

Remember, we teach people how to treat us, so be a good teacher!

Good luck andb keep me posted! -SASSY


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