A Bozeman company is betting on pumped storage to help renew the state’s electricity grid.
MT Lowdown Podcast
Episode 44 — U.S. House candidate Matt Rains
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Rains says he’s running to help ensure that farming and ranching remain viable for future generations of Montanans: “We have to find a way to make sure that ranchers and farmers can prosper on the ranch, otherwise rural Montana’s going to just vanish.”
Spring Creek Mine
Spring Creek Mine re-opens, challenges remain
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A “short-term agreement” allows 283 mine employees to return to work while DEQ and NTEC negotiate a final permit.
Spring Creek Mine
Purchase of Spring Creek coal mine leads to suspension of operations
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Montana’s largest coal mine suspended operations Thursday, after a permitting impasse between the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and the Navajo Transitional Energy Company.
Public Service Commission
PSC attorney: Commissioners showed bias about solar projects — but not too much
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Solar advocates have argued that Montana’s elected Public Service Commissioners, all Republicans, have created a hostile environment for solar development by setting rates too low for solar farms to be economically viable.
Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force
Tribal reps withdraw from DOJ’s Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force over AG’s support for Keystone XL
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“On one hand, he’s rubbing our back, but on the other hand, he’s punching us in the stomach,” wrote Fort Peck Executive Board member Jestin Dupree.
Keystone XL
Federal judge in Great Falls hears Keystone XL arguments
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District Court judge Brian Morris considered the government’s motion to dismiss.
Energy
Utility commissioner criticizes judge who found panel biased against solar development
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Public Service Commissioner Roger Koopman said he believes a judge overseeing a solar rate case likely “came to his ruling on the basis of bias.”
Energy
Citing newspaper op-eds, judge finds Montana utility regulators biased against solar development
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Public Service Commissioner guest columns critical of renewable energy create a due process violation in solar rate case, judge rules