Gordon said, "Enacting a moratorium at a moment when coal is badly needed to ensure a secure and reliable energy supply is wrong-headed on many fronts."
The event is the first of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Fair Virtual Series, which was organized by the University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI).
The plan, totaling some $3.5 billion, will involve significant upgrades to existing wind plants, construction of a 140 miles of transmission line in Wyoming and adding up to 1,100 megawatts of new wind projects -- primarily in Wyoming -- by the end of 2020.
Governor Mead says adding taxes to things like wind and groceries to make up for the state's revenue shortfall will "put the entire state into an economic death spiral."
“Building fossil energy-based, world-class research programs that focus upon sustaining a prosperous future for Wyoming oil, gas and coal cannot be achieved alone,” Horner adds.
Cheney is running for Wyoming's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which will be vacant when Rep. Cynthia Lummis leaves office at the end of her term.