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WindAction | BLM backs off approval of Albany County wind transmission line

In response to a lawsuit claiming the agency didn’t give proper public notice of its plans to build a wind transmission line through Albany County, the BLM has backed off and agreed to give it a closer look. The Bureau of Land Management is voluntarily back-tracking on its approval of a power transmission line in Southeast Wyoming and is going to give it a more comprehensive look. The Albany County Conservancy and retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist Mike Lockhart had filed a lawsuit earlier this year challenging the BLM’s approval process for the transmission line, which was proposed to connect the Rock Creek Wind project to two larger transmission lines that will carry wind energy out of Wyoming. ....

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