The deadline for public comments for the BWXT $100,000,000 WEA Grant is Tuesday, November 25, 2025. The funds are for the TRISO Fuel Fabrication Facility planned for somewhere in Campbell County.
Public comments can still be sent to wea@wyo.gov until the Nov 25th deadline.
According to the Gillette News Record:
The Gillette City Council will be sending their letter of approval, but the Campbell County Commission does not plan to send their official approval.
Commissioner Kelley McCreery said the city’s letter made him feel uncomfortable because he got the sense that it was showing favoritism.
“I would rather tell the WEA that I’m neither for it or against it,” he added. “I’m not going to speak ill of it but I’m not going to vote for it.”
Commissioner Jerry Means said he didn’t feel comfortable signing a letter “after the fact.”
“WEA has made this decision, if they were really interested in our opinion we would have been told about this prior,” he said. “I don’t like signing something after the fact.”
Commissioner Bob Jordan said even though the money would be going toward a company that is planning to build in Campbell County, it’s disingenuous to frame this as money going to Campbell County.
“Actually it’s not, it’s going to a private company,” he said, adding that he was “not in favor of putting together a word salad like the city.”
“If I had it my way, I wouldn’t have the program to begin with,” said Commissioner Scott Clem. “But the legislature said this is important, they’re the ones that put these funds aside for these things…I’d rather that money come to Campbell County than stay in Cheyenne.”
For Commissioner Jim Ford, all the letter does is “make a real simple statement that we’re for private business, that we’re for energy, that we’re for money that Campbell County has sent to Cheyenne to come back here, to support diversification in our tax base, for new jobs, and for new tax revenue.”
Campbell County Commission won’t sign letter of support for BWXT
By JONATHAN GALLARDO News Record Writer jgallardo@gillettenewsrecord.net
November 21, 2025