The Wyoming Senate has given final approval to a bill allowing the state to partner with private business to convert Wyoming minerals to value-added products like ammonia and plastics.
Glenrock Senator Jim Anderson says with the downturn in energy prices business leaders in Converse County are excited about the possibilities.
“But we see this downturn as opportunity, not only as opportunity, but it necessitates that we go out and find other ways to market those products that we have in hand.”
Senators Cale Case and Charles Scott both objected to the program saying that when the state has invested in similar projects in the past they have not panned out. Scott says these ventures should be left to the private sector.
