{"id":799,"date":"2008-12-29T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:16","slug":"wyoming_ranchers_wind_power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wyoming_ranchers_wind_power\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing cow wind for real wind power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/cow.gif\">Here&#8217;s a double whammy for the environment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplepundit.com\/pages\/wyoming-western-ranchers-form-wind-energ.php\">Triple Pundit reports <\/a>that &#8220;ranchers and property owners in high, steady wind areas of Wyoming and neighboring western states turn to wind energy associations as a means of better understanding and coming to terms with the growing number of wind energy project developers and agents interested in leasing rights to their land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And why are they doing that? <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because it seems like cattle ranching isn&#8217;t as lucrative as it used to be. &#8220;The cost of diesel and gasoline, as well as fertilizers, hay and other inputs, have shot up sharply over a period of years. This year&#8217;s calf prices, meanwhile, are the lowest since 2002 putting pressure on the many smaller, family run cow\/calf operations spread across the Mountain West&#8221;, continues the report.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>Without wanting to indulge in a bit of <em>schadenfreude<\/em>, a lovely German word that means pleasure in other people&#8217;s misfortunes, I do welcome any move away from animal farming, especially in favor of renewable energy. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/vegetarianism-and-climate-change\/#more-591\">we&#8217;ve reported before<\/a>, livestock accounts for the emission of more greenhouses gases than transport, or 18% against 13%, besides being a major force of deforestation and wildlife displacement. I hope the winds of change will bring lots of rewards to the Wyoming folks.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a double whammy for the environment. Triple Pundit reports that &#8220;ranchers and property owners in high, steady wind areas of Wyoming and neighboring western states turn to wind energy associations as a means of better understanding and coming to terms with the growing number of wind energy project developers and agents interested in leasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-cost-of-meat","category-wind-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9730,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}