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350 Missoula and the Montana Environmental Information Center </span></b><b><span>in Butte on October 10 for a massive rally in
support of renewable energy</span></b><span>:</span>
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<span style="font-variant:small-caps">A.M</span>. October 10 in Butte</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span>at
Emma Park, </span><span class="gmail-street-address">South Dakota Street and West
Porphyry Street</span></b><b><span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Go to <a href="http://www.350montana.org">www.350montana.org</a>
for details and to sign up.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is an all-Montana demonstration! Right now, Montanans
have an historic opportunity to pivot to renewables, to harness our vast wind
and solar resources, to go hard and heavy for clean energy. The gigantic, coal-fired
generators at Colstrip – <i>the third most
greenhouse-gas polluting in the nation</i> – are phasing out because customers
on the West Coast no longer want to purchase electricity that degrades our
climate. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have the technology, we have the skilled workers, we have
the money to harness the power of Montana’s world-class sun and wind resources.
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<p class="MsoNormal">What we lack is the will!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Montana’s utility,
NorthWestern Energy, wants us to jump from the frying pan into the fire.</b>
The company just announced plans to build 13 new natural gas generators (689
megawatts) in the next 15 years to replace the Colstrip plants and is lobbying
aggressively to make sure home solar is expensive and bureaucratically hamstrung.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our utility, a “regulated monopoly,” is going backwards! </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Join 350 Montana and the Montana
Environmental Information Center </span></b><span>to tell NorthWestern Energy <a name="_GoBack"></a>that Montanans want
100 percent renewable power. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Speakers will talk
about the purposeful constraints keeping wind and solar under wraps and preventing
our transition to carbon-free energy. They’ll talk how the election
November 8 will determine the composition and the direction of the Public
Service Commission, the elected board that regulates NorthWestern Energy. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Transport from
Missoula, Bozeman and Helena is available, along with food and music by Jack
Gladstone and Andrea Harsell. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Go to </span><a href="http://www.350montana.org"><span>www.350montana.org</span></a><span> for more information and to sign up.</span></p>
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