Colstrip

A pilot project led by Bill Gates will bring the first nuclear power plant to the Cowboy State. Could the idea work for Colstrip?

Is this the bill that will help save Colstrip, the coal mine, and the coal-fired power plant in Southeast Montana? Or, will Colstrip shut down anyway, and will ratepayers be left holding the bag?

A company that operates a coal-fired power plant in Montana says it wants to buy more of the plant from a Washington state utility.

The bonds are intended to protect taxpayers from being stuck with a bill for future cleanup costs.

Here's the deal: If you are cheering the news of the shutdown of Colstrip 1&2 and attacking the takedown of terror leader Suleimani, it's time for you to ask yourself whose side you are really on.

"Saturday, January 4th, 2019 will go down as a dark day in Montana history. On this day, Colstrip Units 1 and 2 will be closed - with the doors dismantled and welded shut."

Coming in at #8: Guest Opinion: Let's Look at the Facts on Colstrip |

The Billings Gazette reports the Northern Cheyenne Tribe will receive up to $270,000 for a street sweeper and the city of Colstrip will receive up to $103,000 for a building to store road de-icer.

District Judge Kathy Seeley in 2016 ordered the state Department of Environmental Quality to reconsider the permit for the Rosebud strip mine, which fuels the nearby Colstrip power plant.

"Montana needs Governor on workers' side." While you may disagree with the contents of the op-ed, the headline nails it: we haven't had a governor on the workers' side in years. Instead, Gov. Steve Bullock has done the bidding of the deep-pocketed, radical environmental groups.