Behind The Scenes Of A Conservative Billionaire's Ambitious Wind Project

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Leigh Paterson

On a 500 square mile ranch in Carbon County, Wyoming, one of the world's largest renewable energy projects is unfolding, backed by an unlikely entrepreneur.

Journalist Gabriel Kahn wrote about the Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm for this month's issue of Pacific Standard magazine. He tells Wyoming Public Radio's Stephanie Joyce it's an enormous gamble. 

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