Independent Notes: Concerns about the mid-term elections and what it means for Wyoming.

With the mid-term elections complete across the country, I again find myself concerned about Wyoming and our mineral based economy. As the shift in Congress comes with the new year, what will it mean to a state that thrives on an energy based economy, and for that matter, a country that thrives economically when energy resources are fully utilized? We have lived through the earlier years of working with the challenges of administrations that didn’t share our Wyoming interests. In those earlier days we found ourselves with ongoing battles to maintain Wyoming’s oil, gas and coal production, along with various products that help the economy. With the latest changes in Congress, I worry the battles will resume. As an example when the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan (RMP) was announced by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for 3.7 million acres across a five-county area we found it challenged our Wyoming recourses and ultimately our Wyoming way of life.

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