HELENA, Mont. – Montana Public Service Commissioner Ken Toole says PPL Montana tried to pressure NorthWestern Energy into accepting the company’s legislative agenda.
Toole called it “unethical” for PPL to seek such a guarantee as part of its 2006 price negotiations with NorthWestern. NorthWestern buys much of its energy from PPL then markets it to consumers.
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CHOTEAU, Mont. — School authorities’ cancellation of a talk that a Nobel laureate climate researcher was to have given to high school students has deeply divided this small farming and ranching town at the base of the east side of the Rocky Mountains.
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Canada’s Cline Mining Corp. wants to develop an open-pit mine requiring roads, rock dumps, a coal washing plant, a power-line corridor, a mine camp and fuel storage.
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and others have expressed concern the mine would pollute water in the Flathead River system, which spans the British Columbia-Montana border. The Flathead’s North Fork forms the western boundary of Glacier Park, and Flathead water flows into Montana’s sprawling Flathead Lake. Critics of the mine say it threatens wildlife habitat, as well.
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