Wind tower manufacturer chooses Cheyenne for $40 million facility

[Fledermaus]

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In what's hoped will be the start of a flourishing industry in Wyoming, Gov. Matt Mead and state business officials announced Tuesday that construction will begin this spring on a $40 million wind tower manufacturing facility near Cheyenne.

As Wyoming's first-ever wind energy manufacturing facility, the 30-acre facility will be a milestone in efforts to build a manufacturing sector around the state's mushrooming wind energy industry.

Co-owned by Spanish-based steel company Corporacion Gestamp and Ohio-based Worthington Industries, the facility will create about 150 jobs, company officials said.

Starting early next year, the companies plan to start shipping annually more than 300 steel wind tower sections, each measuring between 80 and 100 feet long.

The facility will also serve as North American headquarters for Worthington Industries' wind energy division, said company president Ralph Roberts.
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[bbinacan]

1. You do understand that

this will ruin the environment don't you. Let's look at the components. Steel: Mining the Earth. How do we smelt the steel?: Natural gas, coal, or oil. Let's not forget the birds. We can't have a few smashing onto the turbines. I almost forgot, lawsuits are popping up left and right about the "noise" they make. Ah shit, let's go back to living in caves and having wood fires. Wood fires? That means deforestation. Wait....

[demosincebirth]

2. More work to a RTW state.