Wyoming, nation’s top coal mining state, promotes climate-friendly plans | 60 Minutes
Wyoming is the nation’s top coal mining state, but Republican Gov. Mark Gordon is a leading voice on climate-friendly energy projects. Amid pushback, Gordon has set a net-negative emissions goal.
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A coal-reliant state, typically associated with environmental concerns, is led by a governor actively promoting clean energy initiatives. This highlights a potential shift in perspective and a move towards environmental responsibility, even within traditionally carbon-intensive industries. We need more conservatives seeing the light in tackling climate change!
Hopefully; or; they see the handwriting on the wall and want to secure a part of this profitable enterprise! Ether way; I'm glad to see it!
They aren't seeing the light, they're just following the money. The video said they're building this infrastructure to sell energy to California. But... good on this governor for doing the bare minimum of acknowledging that climate change exists. Maybe one day we can get more Republicans to admit the sky is blue. Hopefully not before it is too late.
Windmills are inefficient and still rely on fossil fuels
Conservatives in Europe support helping to fix Climate Change, and Public Health Insurance, only in America do Conservatives here want to actively hurt the working class. I'm conservative leaning, but in America I'm viewed as a "liberal" but in Europe I'm Center-Right.
Ultimately it will come down to cost. Solar & wind farms might just get the last laugh--IF stationary storage batteries get bigger, safer and cheaper. Think about it: 'Overbuilding' solar & wind farms will allow any excess power to be dumped into storage--far far cheaper than keeping a labor intensive nuclear/coal or even LNG power plant on line. Plus, any extra (when storage is "full") could be used to make cheap/green H2 as a secondary revenue stream.
Sometimes, it’s really silly to hear that republicans and democrats agree on something or support each other on something. We’ve gotten so politically polarized that cooperation is reportable news. Just silly. Finally, government is collaborating for the sake of constituents and the physical environment. It’s monumental, but it really should be the expected daily occurrence.
Happens a lot more than you think. The problem is corrupt politicians run the parties on both sides.
Using the flared gas to power data centers is genius.
Common sense.
It’s about time! Almost every time I drive my truck through Wyoming, the wind is blowing, blowing, blowing!!!
Well the section of interstate we get sent through in Wyoming is a windswept valley.
we used to joke about it at BYU as W-Y-blowing when we went to Laramie for football games...
@@lylestavast7652 Have you seen the wind farm just east of Laramie? Love seeing those spinning things “mill” those electrons! 🤗
Great reporting from 60 Minutes, as always! And thumbs up to the Wyoming governor and all the people invested in the transition there---BIG BIG THANKS for your inspiration!!!
I'm with him. Let try "all the above" and see which one works best.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is another great example of being red and green too. It's insane that a completely scientific issue like climate change has become politicized, but that was the goal of "big oil" all along.
Don’t know his other policies. But wyoming and Vermont both have good republican governors. Both would make great republican candidates to run for president compared to what’s currently running……
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The 20’s have been nothing but a dumpster fire and the last 4 years only preclude the next 4 if we keep electing these oafs.
The glove the doctor used to check your prostate would make a better candidate than who is currently running. No one wants the job anymore. Too much liability.
7:30 that's a bold faced lie. Even if current capture tech was enough, it's not economical.
Its not about the economy. Its about the planet.
An excellent example of “money talks”. Texas is the same way…the legacy fossil interests have tried to prop themselves up, but so many land owners and utility companies are very clear that it’s economics not “wokeness” driving the investments.
ERCOT is screwing over Texans for Bitcoin miners
@@FINSuojeluskuntawhich is particularly funny; since bit-coin has no value! Little more then monopoly game money!
The governor seems way more informed than the professor, we don't have carbon capture for coal plants that works in the real world at this point, and coal is already an expensive form of power, adding something that increases cost and decreases efficiency wont fix that. She is literally from a bankrupted mining company.
I was building wind turbines in Wyoming 25 years ago.
Well done by Wyoming and the governor, and well done by 60 Minutes! It's great to see this level of cooperation and innovation. Everyone has a reason (or many reasons) to protect the environment and it's important to keep our common interests in mind. I was fascinated to see Wyoming's diverse energy resources summarized this way. I have to think that geothermal energy would be another resource unique to Wyoming and a potential contributor to clean energy solutions.
It makes sense a very conservative state is friendly to renewable energy. Conservatives created the EPA after all.
I hope this trend continues. Conservatives have kids, too, and hopefully want them to have a good life, and they should also want to make money off new tech. People don't remember global warming wasn't a culture war issue until the oil industry went fully overt against it in the 2000's, and they overwhelmingly fund the GOP. Schwartzenegger did more for California renewables than anyone else so far
When you have the tendency for high sustained winds, it is only common sense to take advantage of it. Especially in light of the "loyalty" to oil exclusivity mindset is falling to it's knees.
Shipping the power to somewhere useful is the issue. No one lives in Wyoming
Regardless of where you are politically on the spectrum, you have to know that the trend is going away from fossil fuels. The governor and everyone supporting him is smart for wanting to get ahead of that. Wyoming stands to do well economically and that should be incentive enough without environmental impacts.
The beginning of any new technology always has its fits and start .I’m really hopeful it will get figured out and new ideas will improve the energy problem. There are many creative minds that can solve our problems given a chance😊
As long as the government has their 👀 👀 👀 $$$$$$$,??????don't know if they like or 😮😮
The biggest question to ask is; if the space program is planing on going back to the moon (and they are) where they believe there is water ice; to then use the water to extract Hydrogen from to use as fuel to then leapfrog further out; why can't we use the same technique to have the hydrogen in H2O to power ground based factories; and electric producing plants to run our earthbound industries and homes?!
Hydrogen embrittlement. The space program is looking for a propellent. @@aarone9000
Wonderful news to have!!
Yes! this is good to hear.
Wyoming winters are pretty harsh. Road conditions turn ugly in the blink of an eye. Winter storms make reaching remote locations and servicing hardware very challenging. Wyoming is not for sissies which is why its the least populated state in the country.
we use snowcats to go to our oil assets in wyoming. Find a way baby!
Well, it is mostly National Parks and ranches of billionaires.
Refreshing.
Big shout to Ms. Keefe's class at the Josiah Quincy School in Boston, MA! It's our teachers bday tomorrow on the 14th!
I can intern carbon , TONNES of it. But the price of a carbon credit is so low it wouldn't cover the cost of the labor for internment, let alone the carbon. And I'm in ARGENTINA....
LOVE bipartisan solution seeking for climate change and thank you 60 Minutes for reporting on hopeful news like this.
Many will say that the turbines being hard to recycle currently is an issue but with these new ones they’ll reach EOL by the time we’re able to recycle blades and more as we’ve already started doing albeit on a small scale currently it could be easily scaled up. Eventually we’ll be pulling the blades out of the ground to make new ones.
Flairing in the state of California ends in a lawsuit from local cities. It’s not a mystery that it emits toxic gas into the air. If that happened in a facility in the Bay Area it would make the news.
Only thing in eastern Wyoming is sagebrush & wind. The wind blows every day. Might as well tap the entire region for wind power. 🤠
I think the governor is smart enough to see the writing on the wall. We are shutting down are cheapest way of energy production.
He's trying everything, Nuclear, wind, carbon capture. I love it, that's what we should be doing. its complicated problem that's not gonna be solved by green energy and nothing else.
Great to see this 👍 ....spent eight years on a ranch in Wyoming .....nice to see a republican governor moving things in the right direction.
Yep, put all the very best people on the task, then cut off the support once they have committed their lives and children's lives to make changes. The same old playbook.
I live in Wyoming. There are lots of wind turbines in numerous places. I see them every day. Despite the ridiculous amount of wind here (it can go on for weeks and weeks until it calms down) they almost never operate! The wind is either blowing too fast (it will destroy the gear mechanisms) or simply not fast enough. Firms are paid massive subsidies to manufacture these. Otherwise they are completely unprofitable. But keep dreaming.
My question is how long will it take for the company building 600 wind turbines and then adding the transmission lines to California to recover the billions of dollars spent to build this setup?
7:05 "Carbon capture and storage..." ...a waste of time and effort. If producing energy by burning coal *without* CCS is not competitive with solar and wind, why would producing energy by burning coal *with* CCS be any more competitive?
Considering most coal is used for electricity generation, Wyoming should be pro-EV’s.
Woah there one step at a time, buddy
CAS is not a viable technology yet. that's a gross exaggeration
Ironic that a major electric supplier in wyo tried to raise its' rates by 21.6% -- somebodys getting rich and its not regular folks.
Most of the current battery investment, 100’s of billions of private investment, are being spend in red states.
Encouraging
Old school GOP guy. A dying breed. I miss this type of GOP.
Carbon capture is the best solution because you have 1 mine, instead of gold, silver, copper, cobalt, lithium, ect for "green energy", but hey I'm a mining engineer any solution benefits me especially "green energy" we love it LOL
Of course the UW professor came from Peabody Coal, but cool to see the red & green governor talking about carbon negative.
Only when there is money to be made will we see a dramatic shift in this area. Hopefully the tide is turning.
Note “zero carbon” not “net zero carbon” language.
His first problem was trusting Harvard and bill gates
We can do this; to the betterment of everyone! All we need to do as we once did; is pull together! One for all all for one
"These pretzels are making me thirsty!"
Thanks for putting politics aside and helping us in California 👍 It's hard to watch the world move past us in infrastructure Even places like Thailand or Mexico are starting to look futuristic 😂
❤
It should worry Republicans greatly that the biggest news value here is in finding a smart, honest, actually business friendly, and scientifically literate *red* top politician. Not fighting pointless culture wars, but making his home state attractive to future proof businesses is actually just doing his job. It's an example to follow.
It's too late
900 likes at 48k views shows how much people care 😮💨
Why don't we just use H2O for all our energy needs?
There are carbon capture projects right now in America, just million times too small, to have any impact on anything really. Carbon capture is fool's errand.
Carbon capture will never be the answer That is a joke !!!!
Take away the phony alarmism, and you'll find a lot more support for renewable technology.
Coal, oil or gas in the ground is already in a near perfect state of captured carbon. Any idea to extract and cash it in before trying to recapture it, typically at the everyone else's expense is just insanely stupid, greedy, exploitation. Fk those fossil fuel capitalists and the horse they road in on. Solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuel, especially before the added expense of carbon capture to say nothing of incalculable cost of the damage, climate change is causing.
Carbon capture and storage is criminal and insane, co2 is so good for plant 🌱 growth.
High temps and droughts are not.
Seriously this is reporting lite. I cannot judge whether this is a climate help or the usual two-step dance at the bingo. Super low on info.
Its all about the money, and money says nothing can compete with solar, batteries and long distance HVDC transmission lines. Especially wind.
Our planet has taken care of its self forever
The planet can eventually recover from climate change. Our civilization may not.
If 1.2 million pay $15/day for a year for that power he makes 6.5 billion back.
I'm very fascinated by the climate cult
Cryto minining and data centers in general are the most environmentally damaging technologies humans have ever devised.
It seems a wasted opportunity. That this cheap power, is doing something for a few rich. Not for public gain.
@billpetersen298 It's an unbelievable amount of energy. It already negates all renewable energy production on the grid, and more. Old coal plants are going back online to meet the demand.
@@andyfeimsternfei8408 I was just referring to the use of the flaring gas. If you want to reduce coal use? Yes the worst of all, kinds of power. Don’t buy Chinese products.
@billpetersen298 I was referring to cryptomining and massive data centers, powered by any means. Massively wasteful and negates all "green" energy on the grid. BTW, Chinese is all there is. America makes nothing anymore.
About time we nationally recognize that Wyoming blows..
My mustang gets 4mpg
if you think we can keep this modern world...and...keep business as usual will continue but somewhat greener?.....keep dreaming....we will keep going as fast as we can until we hit a brick wall....then we will be forced to change and guess what...it will be far too late
Because dying sucks. 🤷
Carbon capture is a joke.
I think there is a need for more bans in the fight against climate change. It's a common misconception that such measures go against market liberal principles. In fact, bans can be a catalyst for innovation and positive change. When certain practices or products are restricted, it creates a space for entrepreneurs and businesses to explore alternative, sustainable solutions. History has shown us that bans often lead to breakthroughs in technology and more eco-friendly practices. It's not about restricting the market; it's about redirecting it toward a more sustainable and responsible path. For those who lean more conservative, embracing these bans can be a way to protect our shared environment and ensure a better future for generations to come. Instead of viewing it as a hindrance, consider it an opportunity for businesses to adapt and thrive in a changing landscape.
Yeah well said. To many think its some big hoax thanks to media etc.
Why do we need to fight against climate change?
People are ridiculous. Everyone thinks republican voters are addicted to coal when in reality its the money that will take away from the region even further. They are already the poorest parts of the country, now they want to take some of the last well paying jobs away. Im all for nuclear energy, wind creates so much waste from windmills. Solar may be a good supplement but still requires power storage, which should go to the electric cars being pushed out. I live in Ohio near the river and along the border with Kentucky and West Virginia. I see barges carrying coal constantly. Its disappointing some rich liberals in big cities working empty jobs in bloated offices want to take away one of the last lines of commerce from the region. Its the rich controlling the poor and dictating their lives, how about figuring out how to replace the jobs in our area and maybe you'd get some cooperation.
Hows about stop giving the rich huge tax breaks eh Mr GOP?
@jamesetal7088 that's a completely issue. You don't think the dems give themselves some kick backs. Ask why Nancy makes so much on the stock market.
You blame the rich liberals in big cities working empty jobs in bloated offices for the biggest tax break in history given out by the Trump administration when the controlled all branches of govt? @@obsolete208
Money and greed is the only thing they're worried about, nothing else, they'll be long gone and environment will be worse just like every other money hungry a hole
Dang liberals...😂
can we make rally races in the wind farms. it can promote clean energy while also using the land in a fun economically friendly way, while the rally cars might not be the best for the environment wind farms take a massive chunk of land but leave the earths crust almost unchanged with some great gravel roads being laid to service the turbines.
Uhhh, what climate crisis? The weather's no more extreme than any other time. We have the historical records.
Overhead electric transmission lines are awful and should no longer be constructed, we need underground Graphene transmission lines.
Do you want wind farms or not?
horsesh-- !
At 400ppm Co2 the earth is 15% greener , at 150and below plants die ! We need more Co2
human activity causes less than 1% of temperature.
thats 10 billion dollars down the drain lol
There is no reason to not build wind farms. It's money left on the table. Sell that juice to California.
I can't believe anyone still uses dirty coal.
There's this thing called freezing to death, and there's this other thing called starving to death because you can't afford solar panels on your roof.
@@jamese9283what are you waffling on about
@jamese9283 There's also a thing called natural gas, propane, gasoline, or even diesel is cleaner than coal. You'd be better off burning wood. It's literally *_the_* dirtiest fuel on earth.
If wind and solar is now the cheapest power on the planet amd getting better and cheaper, why do we have to pay more to keep coal and the other technologies of burning stuff alive?
The earth has continued to recover from the last ice age for several thousand years. Plants need Co2 to grow.
Yep C02 is life’s gas .
The Bible teaches teaches that we should be good stewards of what God has given us. This leadership is long overdue.
No gods gave humans anything.
#governercox
Coal must be left in the ground.
Nope
Climate conscious Republicans?! Wow. Maybe there is hope. Refreshing after Dictator drill, drill, drill.
carbon is needed for plants to grow , actually we need more co2 not less.
All among degraded landscapes...
That's how WY always is. Not any worse than usual.
Dang, all it took was publishing Jeffrey Epstein's rolodex. That wasn't so hard, was it guys?
Bitcoin is good for the enviroment
And funds North Korea's nuclear weapons
Your name is; environment?! It requires a lot of energy for bit-coin computing to operate! Do some research!
it is not.
Windmills !!! cost more too maintain then the pay back.
Fossil Fuels, will cost us everything. Well maybe not us, but the next generations will absolutely be happy If we chose to spend a little more instead for friendly sustainable energy instead of burn everything like the gluttonous greedy pigs we are How do you want to be remembered in the history books, as a generation that did the right thing, or the one that said my greed is more important than your life.
Incorrect. They last about 30 years, and ROI is 5-7 years. Get off Fox News.
Where did you get that? Let me guess; "truth" social?!
How much do you think it takes to maintain oil Riggs or refineries!?
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Is the WEF involved ?!?!?!, I think so!!!!!?