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By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new episode of our \u201cwildly\u201d popular video series Conservation Nation was posted this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriella Hoffman, a senior policy analyst at CFACT who serves as the program\u2019s host, travels to Wyoming \u2026 again. This time, she\u2019s investigating why an oil and gas producing state like Wyoming has brought into questionable projects that advance costly wind and solar energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2013 functioning for a mere 35% of the year. Additionally, these \u201crenewable\u201d structures are very land-intensive and weather dependent. They are hardly \u201cgreen\u201d or environmentally-friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNone of the electricity will be consumed in Wyoming,\u201d said John Davis, a member of Albany County Conservancy. \u201cThe wind turbines, though they seem to be spinning lazily as you drive by, they\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since this episode was filmed, President Trump issued a moratorium on wind projects to assess the trade offs of these unreliable, harmful projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an episode you don\u2019t want to miss. Watch Episode 20 of Conservation Natio<\/a>n<\/a> today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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