Gabriella Hoffman, a senior policy analyst at CFACT who serves as the program’s host, travels to Wyoming … again. This time, she’s investigating why an oil and gas producing state like Wyoming has brought into questionable projects that advance costly wind and solar energy.
As CFACT supporters know, wind energy is the second least reliable electricity source on the market. Per the Department of Energy, it has one of the lowest capacity factor rates of all energy sources – functioning for a mere 35% of the year. Additionally, these “renewable” structures are very land-intensive and weather dependent. They are hardly “green” or environmentally-friendly.
Gabriella spoke to members of the Albany County Conservancy, a local conservation group, about the economic and environmental threats that 20+ proposed projects pose to southern Wyoming, and in particular on golden eagles.
“None of the electricity will be consumed in Wyoming,” said John Davis, a member of Albany County Conservancy. “The wind turbines, though they seem to be spinning lazily as you drive by, they’re really going over 100 miles an hour, and as raptors fly and look down, many of them have been caught up in wind turbines and chopped up.”
Since this episode was filmed, President Trump issued a moratorium on wind projects to assess the trade offs of these unreliable, harmful projects.
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