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<p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
courtroom promises to be full on <strong>Thursday, February 20, at 1:30 p.m. at
the Missoula Federal Courthouse</strong>, 201 East Broadway, when Dana
Christensen, Chief United States District Judge of the United States District
Court for the District of Montana, hears argument on whether to allow
NorthWestern Energy's stockholders a vote on a resolution pushing Montana’s
monopoly utility away from its purchase of the Colstrip-4 coal-fired generator
and toward renewable energy. <br></span></p><p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></p><p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</p><p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Please
join 350 Montana to fill the 80 seats in the courtroom.<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ovando
resident Tom Tosdal has written a resolution to the company's stockholders, but
since October, NorthWestern Energy has hired three different sets of lawyers to
prevent stockholders from seeing the resolution. NorthWestern Energy is afraid
of this:<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.1pt 0.35in 0.1pt 0.3in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><strong><span style="font-family:Times">“THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED</span></strong>
the shareholders request Northwestern Corporation plan for the Northwestern
Energy Company to cease coal fired generation of electricity from the Colstrip
plant and replace that electricity with non-carbon emitting renewable energy
and 21<sup>st</sup> century storage technologies with its own assets or from
the market no later than the end of the year 2025, and to share that plan with
the shareholders no later than the 2021 annual meeting.”<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Tosdal
has gone toe-to-toe with the company, filing the resolution last September,
meeting all the company’s byzantine requirements, and submitting his final brief
at the beginning of February. Now he gets to square off in court to settle it once
and for all. <span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Here’s
David McComber’s article in <i>The Montana
Standard</i> that lays out the stakes:<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="https://mtstandard.com/news/local/shareholder-s-request-to-northwestern-energy-turns-into-a-climate/article_3ffe1702-ad48-5260-b04a-c4bf21d8f907.html" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://mtstandard.com/news/local/shareholder-s-request-to-northwestern-energy-turns-into-a-climate/article_3ffe1702-ad48-5260-b04a-c4bf21d8f907.html</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
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<p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">You
can read the whole resolution here:<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.1pt 0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.350montana.org/2019/12/09/nwe-stockholder-proposal/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://www.350montana.org/2019/12/09/nwe-stockholder-proposal/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span></span></span></p>
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