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| 2016-10-27 |
| [Daily Caller] In the small city of Colstrip, a one-time "best sports town" in Montana, the football community has become more about political football than the actual sport. The 2,300 residents in Southeast Montana face an uphill battle to keep the city alive against an onslaught of legal battles and a major anti-coal crusade launched by outsiders. "If you look around these coal mines and this coal plant, it’s the lifeblood of the area," Jason Small, the head of the local Boilermakers Union, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "The only reason there is anything here is the support industry for these big capital projects, other than agriculture." There is roughly one park for every hundred people in Colstrip, recreation made possible by the high wages and local tax base that came with coal mining. But none of that matters to the environmentalists looking to wean America off coal. In July, an out of court agreement was reached to close two of the four units of Colstrip’s coal-fired power plant by 2022. The Sierra Club and the Montana Environmental Information Center, which sued the plant in 2013, see the closure as a victory. Con't. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Perhaps if Big Coal united for a shutdown midwinter to teach the grid a lesson.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-10-27 20:45 |
| #3 The outsiders work to shut these facilities down because it doesn't effectively impact them in any tangible way that they can see. They also don't have to live with the immediate or sustained consequences, driving their solar powered cars and whatnot. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-10-27 09:23 |
| #2 The unions did the same thing to Raton, New Mexico and its coal mine with ridiculous demands of pay and benefits. Raton is a shell of its former self. Regulations (mostly environmental) shut down the Anaconda copper mine in Butte Montana. Which is now a mere husk of its former self. Leftists of every flavor everywhere have already made their peace with the notion that if they can't have everything they want, they will burn down the universe. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-10-27 08:16 |
| #1 Gun and bible toting bittereinder conservatives. These deplorable people need to be [sarc off] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-27 01:07 |