<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Lance Olsen <<a href="mailto:lance@wildrockies.org" class="">lance@wildrockies.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div 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 class=""><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></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>First, tell me whether we should we get around them, or if getting around them is the only path to jobs? I’d say yes to that, but only if the <i class=""><b class="">only possible jobs</b></i>, for the tribes and others, is in MANUFACTURING</div><div><br class=""></div><div>But jobs in manufacturing aren’t the only option; the jobs in installation pay darned well, and the path to those jobs may be a lot shorter, and with a lot less hassle, for us, or for Congress. You might be running risk of jeopardizing those jobs by insisting on manufacturing.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My take is that we need to act with some urgency and that we might actually get on with it by working toward jobs installing (imported) solar panels on every rooftop on every Indian reservation in the state. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div 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=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><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></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>The question about subsidies goes straight to another of your questions</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div 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=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><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></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>To name a few off the top of my head, small farm ag, industrial ag, and the owners of forest lands. All these and others will need subsidies to capture and store carbon in the soils. And competition for funding is much more widespread, even including medicare, the military, schools. — many, many sectors will be competing for funding that would be needed to subsidize manufacture of solar panels in Montana or elsewhere.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>All that said, tho, transferring subsidies now granted for coal, oil, and gas to subsidies for solar (and wind) is widely discussed and already has some support. This may not end up applying to solar manufacturing, tho, so I’d suggest caution on that count</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div 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=""><div class=""><div class=""><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 ... 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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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