State panel approves wind farm LARAMIE, WYO. (wpr) - The Wyoming Industrial Siting Council has approved a siting permit for a wind farm that will straddle the Albany County and Carbon County border.

The conditional-use permit will allow Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp, to build its High Plains and McFadden Ridge wind projects.

The projects will produce 188 megawatts of power on land about 13 miles southwest of Rock River off Wyoming 13.

The total project area would encompass about 11,000 acres of land and create more than 260 full-time jobs during the peak construction periods and 19 permanent jobs during the operational
stages.

Officials from the city of Laramie said they support the projects but were concerned about impacts to the city police, fire and public works because of other major energy construction projects going on at the same time in the area.

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