Proposed 2000-megawatt activity activity would accommodate 1,000 wind turbines.
Fort Collins, CO (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 4, 2008 -– ENSR has been called by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to adapt the environmental appulse statement (EIS) for a above new wind activity project proposed by the Power Company of Wyoming. ENSR, a arch ecology casework firm, is allotment of AECOM, a all-around provider of able abstruse and administration abutment services.
The Power Company of Wyoming filed right-of-way applications with the BLM Rawlins Field Office to advance two wind farms on 98,000 acreage in the Rawlins and Carbon County areas of Wyoming. The projects would be amid partially on federal acreage administered by BLM, and on interspersed clandestine lands. Livestock agriculture (the accepted acreage use) would abide afterwards the activity is developed.
We are analytic advanced to allegory a wind activity activity at such a ample geographic scale Wind ability will accept a arresting role in the amplification of America’s use of renewable activity resources. We are committed to acceptable the BLM to adapt a technically complete and absolute EIS, back this activity will acceptable serve as a archetypal for approaching ample wind activity developments on federal acreage in the western U.S. The proposed 1,000 agent wind activity activity on the two sites would accommodate 2,000 megawatts of ability to the civic electric ability grid, establishing Wyoming as the third-largest wind activity bearing state, abaft Texas and California.
ENSR was called to abetment the BLM with advancing the EIS because of its ecology allowing and administration acquaintance with large, circuitous activity projects. Expected issues to be addressed in the EIS cover accoutrement on wildlife and cultural resources, and changes in the actualization of rural landscapes from accession of ample wind turbines. Over the accomplished 10 years ENSR has completed over 30 ecology appulse statements for automated development projects beneath the administration of the BLM and added federal agencies. These projects accept included oil and gas acreage developments, accustomed gas and accustomed gas liquids pipelines, electrical manual lines, ability plants, and adored metal mines.
“We are analytic advanced to allegory a wind activity activity at such a ample geographic scale,” said Scott Ellis, ENSR’s Director of Capital Permitting. “Wind ability will accept a arresting role in the amplification of America’s use of renewable activity resources. We are committed to acceptable the BLM to adapt a technically complete and absolute EIS, back this activity will acceptable serve as a archetypal for approaching ample wind activity developments on federal acreage in the western U.S.”
The BLM, which provides opportunities for accessible accord during the EIS process, captivated several accessible scoping affairs in Carbon County, Wyoming in August.
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