Wyoming Wind Wall Threatens Property Rights as Colorado Supermajority Pushes Unaffordable Energy

On Thursday, December 11, 2025, Kim Monson explores the growing threat of industrial wind projects along Wyoming’s 100-mile corridor, the Colorado PUC’s costly Clean Heat Plan, and Pam Long’s comprehensive analysis of Colorado’s best and worst political developments in 2025, framed as We the People versus the governing supermajority.

Lakewood Residents Fight Blanket Rezoning

Start listening at 9:00 – Hour 1

Karen Gordey, owner of Radiant Painting and Lighting, provides an update on the Lakewood referendum battle against blanket rezoning that would allow high-density housing anywhere in the city. Despite facing campaign finance complaints and multiple protests, citizen organizers have successfully delayed the implementation of four controversial ordinances originally scheduled for January 1st. Gordey, who heads the validation team reviewing petition signatures, explains how the city strategically split the zoning ordinance into four parts to make opposition more difficult. The campaign finance hearing officer failed to render a decision by the deadline, leaving residents in limbo while they prepare for four separate protest hearings. Gordey emphasizes the financial burden on everyday citizens who must fund legal representation while balancing work and family responsibilities to protect their neighborhoods from unwanted development.

“The good news is these four ordinances were supposed to go into effect January 1st. They received confirmation from the city clerk that those four ordinances, because of the referendum, are on hold until the final sufficiency reports come from the city clerk.”

Karen Gordey, Radiant Painting and Lighting

Colorado’s Clean Heat Plan Burdens Ratepayers

Start listening at 19:00 – Hour 1

Cory Ohnesorge, Colorado Union of Taxpayers board member and solar industry professional, breaks down the alarming implications of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission’s new Clean Heat Plan. The PUC, comprising three governor-appointed members, has mandated that utilities reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4 percent by 2025 and 22 percent by 2030 compared to 2015 levels. Ohnesorge warns that the infrastructure costs for electrification will drive rates dramatically higher while the promised cost savings never materialize. Denver’s plans to fine building owners lacking clean energy systems will push more businesses out of Colorado. Drawing on his chemistry background, Ohnesorge challenges the demonization of carbon dioxide, noting that CO2 is essential for plant life and that marijuana grow houses actually pump in additional CO2 to boost yields.

“They cleverly picked carbon dioxide as sounding something bad like carbon monoxide, and it’s something that we exhale. So psychologically, it’s in a lot of people’s brain that this is a terrible greenhouse gas, and in reality, it’s what plants breathe.”

Cory Ohnesorge, Colorado Union of Taxpayers Board Member

Industrial Wind Projects Create Wyoming Wind Wall

Start listening at 33:00 – Hour 1

Wendy Volk, Cheyenne realtor and sixth-generation rancher, describes the unprecedented land use transformation threatening Wyoming communities. The Laramie Range Wind project proposed by Spanish company Repsol would cover 56,000 acres with 170 wind turbines just outside Cheyenne. Though county commissioners denied the permit based on public input and land use regulations, the company has appealed to district court. Volk connects the dots between multiple projects forming a 100-mile industrial wind wall from Fort Collins through Laramie, Cheyenne, Chugwater, and Glenrock. She reveals that 900 pages of documentation regarding impacts to bald eagles and golden eagles were completely omitted from one project’s application. BlackRock holds nearly 7 percent of Repsol shares, and Larry Fink, BlackRock’s head, now leads the World Economic Forum. Volk calls for transparency, adequate public review time, and cumulative impact analysis across county lines rather than project-by-project evaluation.

“We’re seeing one of the most dramatic land use transformations in our history here in Wyoming and probably Colorado, too, that it’s 100 mile. We’re talking the projects that I’m following right now, it’s a 100-mile industrial corridor.”

Wendy Volk, Cheyenne Realtor

We the People Versus the Supermajority

Start listening at 71:14 – Hour 2

Pam Long, author and military director for Children’s Health Defense, presents her annual Best and Worst of Colorado Politics analysis examining seven critical issues: affordability, housing, transportation, taxes, public safety, energy, and education. The U-Haul migration data reveals Colorado fell 31 places in domestic migration rankings to the bottom 10 in 2024 alone, the largest decline of any state. Long documents how the supermajority’s transit-oriented development mandates clash with residents’ preferences for suburban single-family homes. Westminster City Councilor Kristen Ireland compared the state’s demand for 50,000 high-density housing units to Soviet-style apartment blocks built under Lenin. RTD’s ridership fell 46 percent between 2019 and 2022 while its budget increased, with fares covering only 4.4 percent of operating costs at an estimated $72 million per mile of rail. Crime at Colorado transit terminals spiked 53 percent in violent crime, including a 300 percent rise in murder. Long notes that Denver received a rare F rating from CrimeGrade.org, placing it in the bottom 1 percent of U.S. cities for safety.

“And that in 2024, Colorado had the largest decline of any state in domestic migration, meaning it fell 31 places in the rankings to the bottom 10 in just the last year.”

Pam Long, Author, Kim Monson Show