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<p>With 95-degree temperatures in northern Alaska and choking smoke in
Montana from innumerable fires burning in the West and in British
Columbia, <a href="https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoUsWLkUMWlo_0JmZttSlm3-ivlatIbK7yflf5sDUQaI6cnxodAUT3qp4SC9cyaKYxdz3u_pSenvjUi8gs3l_RanO8x03zDmxiudBBr3Gb4-3Sr0dd7ACx_mzN-xYxki5yaUA_jTqWQzjiAHcFFVFfTls3tH6RHLR8__EKf7n-V31IntcDW48i3K04_lh9IwowATJ2H3AlUVKmV4r_ihX4IrXg9obigGrW-uoeEiRkpIT43fFjTgbav5ed4UWmFJz46IxthyoYqrm-x6Ph7_k4QY8Ok13J9EGpIiSpA_2IBry56_39WPzvrRfM18INpy1uTuy1bqqmVq6V5O0_14R3x8cx8aJCHdjRmDNLoGDSQ3nqHqM_MbqwVW35VR_vKWxVe5cnSixRSPzthMUbozkO0aYG5QKg6OPIoqhMLyZDtJKbWrO7rcPKP-GdBPpULbOnHguYqCZgh_iQkdPnINPIOg/48v/kvKHHBlsQsaFKvp7Ty8ryA/h0/h001.H4z6iJFUxr8zrxcvkDvezYHoY3flGUr5xI9I1Kw5Lfg" target="_blank">please join us to say NO!</a> to NorthWestern Energy's plans to expand greenhouse gas production and worsen climate change.</p>
<p><strong>WHAT: </strong><strong>A Pop-Up Demonstration to say NO! to NorthWestern</strong></p><p><strong>WHO: 350 Montana and 350 Chapters Nationwide<br></strong></p>
<p><strong>WHEN: Wednesday, August 14, at 11:30 A.M.</strong></p>
<p><strong>WHERE: Beartracks (Higgins Street) Bridge</strong></p>
<p><strong>WHY:</strong> During UTILITY JUSTICE WEEK, Montana citizens
are joining with fed-up citizens across the country to protest private
utilities raking in obscene profits by expanding fossil fuel energy that
is unreliable, expensive, and <strong>burning up the planet</strong>.
They need to either move to cheaper, cleaner renewable energy, or get
out of the way and let the people take over the generation and
distribution of energy.</p>
<p>NorthWestern just raised rates 28 percent for its 400,000 Montana
prisoners ... er ... ratepayers. A monopoly, the company doesn't want us
to suffer from "sticker shock," so it plans to raise its rates more
frequently, with huge increases coming this fall and yet again next
spring. You know why? Because they are doubling down <a href="https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.XaF8mXqsA6b2dSPmhsleMTt9hyL9h24GVkisUqeLKFk7dklLBPQ5LSOC9VGfid2kMeHH3BHwFepghTJQBb5bclVcao7yENwecdeFWwWfspUVjlnsiXLgDqAZuNRewzcvqnwvLjrw263M6iU-txIL4HkpGae49IrUIfPicQ0aTX08Mbm3fuaQICR4btdD845ioRhq1zldky-8b9dcBkdHFvGk04_axzIzy3BYY0PK3VGXbMf1vaJu3yjIYIaI-gogvmSVgyVbqvb6fKEaFu7GvyCsxnE4wNh8ylQ9YX_pw44h9kYDEU1cuiiCHsbMcZ0Sc7irHJoQKc6RW_JmrBPQCwtbS8ZusVR_fiEgEpRXOcCMwc6G4DPisQiGcL6PsWxz/48v/kvKHHBlsQsaFKvp7Ty8ryA/h1/h001.Eh-MZ_x7_ohDqp9lpH87T4dzdEQw9-RtDWWLRCAXSc8" target="_blank">on more expensive fossil fuels</a>,
opening a new $300 million methane plant in Laurel and <a href="https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-regional/northwestern-energy-acquires-colstrip-shares-at-no-cost/article_b4083e12-4f8a-11ef-a3a5-bb4f1dc2f458.html">acquiring the largest single source of greenhouse gases remaining in the West, the two massive coal-burners in Colstrip</a>. </p>
<p>It's time to stop sitting and watching this company bring our
children a dangerously warmer world. And laughing all the way to the
bank. We share these demands with the nationwide public power movement:</p>
<ol><li><p>Ensure reliable and affordable energy for all </p>
</li><li><p>Transition to 100 percent clean renewable energy</p>
</li><li><p>Energy systems run by and for the people - democratic ownership and decision-making for energy generation and distribution.</p>
</li></ol>
<p><strong>Join us this Wednesday on the Beartracks Bridge.</strong></p>
<p>Jeff Smith, co-chair, 350 Montana</p>
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