<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 26, 2017, at 3:53 PM, John Meyer <<a href="mailto:John@cottonwoodlaw.org" class="">John@cottonwoodlaw.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Team Missoula,<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">How do we get around the issues Lance has identified?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Crosscurrents of trade policy</div><div class=""> - Can someone talk to Senators Tester and Daines and ask them to help us with tariffs and subsidies?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Governor Bullock released a report a few days ago saying the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribes have the <br class=""></div><div class=""> highest unemployment rates in Montana. Common sense says that the Senators would jump at the chance <br class=""></div><div class=""> to help combat climate change and create jobs. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Competing sectors within the US solar industry</div><div class=""> We need to identify the other sectors we are going to be competing with. <br class=""></div><div class=""> What are they?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. Issues of pricing the solar panels.</div><div class=""> What issues are we going to run into?<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; font-size: small; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="48" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5_N-Q4fXVAhVjImMKHZXVAmsQFQgwKAIwAg" class=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-solar-insight-idUSKBN1AA0BI" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" class="">Prospect of Trump tariff casts pall over U.S. solar industry - Reuters</a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 18px;"><div class="f _SWb kv" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><cite class="_Rm" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-solar-insight-idUSKBN1AA0BI" class="">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-solar-insight-idUSKBN1AA0BI</a></cite><div class="ab_ctl action-menu" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="_Fmb ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+trade+solar+panels+china&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&oq=trump+trade+solar+panels+china&aqs=chrome..69i57.15170j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b2" aria-label="Result details" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5_N-Q4fXVAhVjImMKHZXVAmsQ7B0IMjAC" style="border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;"></span></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5_N-Q4fXVAhVjImMKHZXVAmsQqR8IMzAC" style="border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class=""><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MlR_mh7UwREJ:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-solar-insight-idUSKBN1AA0BI+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px;"></a></li></ol></div></div></div><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Jul 24, 2017 - </span>U.S. solar companies are snapping up cheap imported <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">solar panels</span> ahead of a <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">trade</span>decision by the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">Trump</span> administration that could drive up ... Low-cost photovoltaic cells and panels made in <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">China</span> and other Asian countries ...</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; font-size: small; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="54" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5_N-Q4fXVAhVjImMKHZXVAmsQFQg2KAMwAw" class=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/suniva-trade-case-48252a50c0dc/" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" class="">Amid layoffs and bankruptcies, solar renegades turn to Trump to fight ...</a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); 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color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">trade</span> practices,” dumping subsidized <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">panels</span> on the ...</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; font-size: small; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="60" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5_N-Q4fXVAhVjImMKHZXVAmsQFQg8KAQwBA" class=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-solar-20170815-story.html" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" class="">Will a trade fight with Asia sabotage the U.S. solar industry? 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color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">solar</span> firms could leave <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">Trump</span> an ... mostly in <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">China</span>and other Asian countries — whose cheap <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">panels</span> have ...</span></div></div></div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Lance Olsen <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:lance@wildrockies.org" target="_blank" class="">lance@wildrockies.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 26, 2017, at 1:24 PM, John Meyer <<a href="mailto:John@cottonwoodlaw.org" target="_blank" class="">John@cottonwoodlaw.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_1521909215386278537Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">To be clear: <br class=""><br class="">I was saying convert Colstrip into an actual manufacturing facility where they make solar panels that can be sold throughout the U.S. <br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></span>Ah, well, now you’re venturing into crosscurrents of trade policy, and competing sectors within the US solar industry, and issues of pricing the solar panels, that could be very difficult. Based on what I know --or think I know-- as of now, that’s not likely to work out as well as it might seem<div class=""><div class="h5"><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>My limited understanding is that many of the solar panels installed on homes are made in Asia. Converting Colstrip into a solar manufacturing facility would create jobs here. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If Tesla can manufacture in California is there any reason why we cannot or should not manufacture solar panels in southeast Montana? <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Lance Olsen <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:lance@wildrockies.org" target="_blank" class="">lance@wildrockies.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 26, 2017, at 10:56 AM, John Meyer <<a href="mailto:John@cottonwoodlaw.org" target="_blank" class="">John@cottonwoodlaw.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_1521909215386278537m_-7406929133185873754Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Lance,<br class=""><br class=""></div>I completely agree with everything you said. <br class=""><br class=""></div>One issue I hear over and over from leaders is that if we want to stop burning coal we need to find alternative jobs for the Natives and non-Natives that work in the coal industry. <br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Amen, that’s a critical issue, John, and one that’s likely to test us as a society because getting from here to there won’t be a free lunch and the coal industry is likely to resist picking up the tab. So the question of equity raises its head all ‘round</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>If there are any investors reading this email that would like to convert Colstrip into a wind and solar manufacturing facility </div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>The transmission lines from Colstrip will be more important than Colstrip itself. That’s not to say that conversion at Colstrip wouldn’t help move the needle, but I’m not seeing it as a sole source of solar/wind generation into the transmission lines. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Solar/wind farms on tribal lands could feed those transmission lines. So could little community microgrids, even rooftop solar.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Like the transmission lines, the market for electricity extends far beyond Montana, well into the Pacific Northwest. The extent of this market illustrates the potential use of transmission lines. Therein lies the economic potential for the necessary shift to solar/wind generation. Groups in the Pacific Northwest have already shown interest in feasibility of using the transmission lines from Colstrip for power generated by wind, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">please shoot me an email. The Tribal leaders I've been chatting with in eastern Montana are open to the idea. <br class=""><br class=""></div>Have a great weekend.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Lance Olsen via Missoula-Community-News <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org" target="_blank" class="">missoula-community-news@bigsk<wbr class="">ynet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Today, a politician said in a press conference that we need to “manage” the forests in order to manage fires, and smoke<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At this stage of the game, it’s much, much more important to manage the fossil fuels than to throw the management burden on forests. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We were always going to have fires. That much won’t change, no matter what we manage. After all, the amount of fossil carbon we’ve already pulled from the ground and sent into the atmosphere means we’ll have more than the usual fires, even if we’d kicked the fossil fuel habit yesterday. Because carbon dioxide has a lifetime of centuries or more in the atmosphere, we’ve already created a bright future for fire. That’s definitely not a good situation, and yet, it’ll be a bad situation gone dangerously worse if we can’t/don’t/won’t manage our use of fossil fuels. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was never going to be easy to tell whether any specific fire is due to climate change, or just another one of the fires we were going to get anyway. But that’s not the most important question anyone could ask about “managing” fire.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Harvesting trees to manage fire can make some difference, how much is debatable, but it’s a false hope if we can’t/don’t/won’t also push hard for harvest of the energy we can get from solar and wind</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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