Oil-gas to hydrogen in Wyoming? Energy school planned by the University of Wyoming must be flexible enough to deal with future changes in the state’s energy industry.

The energy school planned by the University of Wyoming must be flexible enough to deal with future changes in the state’s energy industry, members of the UW Energy Resources Council were told at their first meeting Thursday.

“Wyoming has more energy resources than just oil and gas,” said Myron Allen, UW vice president for academic affairs. “Ten or 15 years from now the array may be different.”

State Rep. Tom Lockhart, R-Casper, chairman of the House Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee, said the school “must have flexibility in the design” to be prepared “when things switch from oil and gas to hydrogen or whatever they switch to.”

Gov. Dave Freudenthal, who appointed industry officials as seven of the council’s nine voting members, urged the board to “think 40 years down the road.”

By W. DALE NELSON
Star-Tribune correspondent

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