From Wyofile, January 12, 2026
For 2.5 hours Thursday, state officials heard testimony and emotional pleas from nearly two dozen residents throughout central and southeast Wyoming about a growing “wall” of wind turbines that critics say threatens to proliferate unchecked.
The State Board of Land Commissioners, most speakers agreed, has fumbled its responsibility to effectively engage the public, has approved state land leases for various industrial projects that it sometimes regrets and generally failed to consider cumulative impacts critics say threaten private property, ranching and small communities.
“This is no longer a series of isolated projects,” Cheyenne area resident Wendy Volk said. “It is a continuous, or near continuous, industrial corridor stretching across multiple counties and landscapes.”
Niobrara County rancher Bobby Giesse was more direct.
“Why is it when 90% of the people are saying, ‘We don’t want this. [It threatens] things like the oil and gas industry. It’s against tourism. It is in direct conflict with agriculture.’ But yet it’s getting pushed down our throats and people aren’t listening. So the question is, why?”
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Wind Concerns is a collaboration of citizens of the Lakeland Alberta region against proposed wind turbine projects.