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State Sunshine and Open Records (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Good! In Montana, State District Judge Wayne Phillips ruled that the city of Great Falls can’t withhold documents from a citizen looking for them on the excuse that the documents are drafts. The ruling resulted from a lawsuit filed by the Montana Environmental Information Center when their requests for agreements between the city of Great [...]
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
GREAT FALLS - A study shows an estimated 1,200 bats, most of them probably migrating through Montana, were killed by wind turbines at the Judith Gap Wind Farm between July 2006 and May 2007. The high number surprised Invenergy, which owns the farm, as ...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Spain-based NaturEner officially (not literally) broke ground Thursday on the first phase of a 210-megawatt wind farm on the hills between Cut Bank and Shelby, the Great Falls Tribune reports. The $500 million, 140-turbine wind farm, the first phase of which is scheduled to be completed by October, will be Montana's largest. The only other of similar scale is Judith Gap (at 135 MW).
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NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Spain-based NaturEner officially (not literally) broke ground Thursday on the first phase of a 210-megawatt wind farm on the hills between Cut Bank and Shelby, the Great Falls Tribune reports. The $500 million, 140-turbine wind farm, the first phase of which is scheduled to be completed by October, will be Montana's largest. The only other of similar scale is Judith Gap (at 135 MW).
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4&20 blackbirds (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
by jhwygirl This comes to us via Electric City Weblog. The Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) was denied access to City of Great Falls records pertaining to the possibly soon-to-be-ill-fated coal-fired Highwood Generation Plant being constructed for Southern Electric Generation and Transmission. The feasibility study is apparently problematic for the city - City Attorney Gliko said that...
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
That a Democratic presidential candidate opened six campaign offices in Montana? As of Saturday, Obama For America will have 24/7 "Campaign for Change" outposts In Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Great Falls, Helena and Missoula.
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4&20 blackbirds (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
by jhwygirl Jay’s got a piece up at Left in the West calling on the Governor to show MT DEQ Director Opper the door….and having read the newest story from the Great Falls Tribune on the mistrials of Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality, I have to wonder whether anything less would suffice. The Missoula Independent’s George Ochenski [...]
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Matt's blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Keep a sharp eye on Senators as they vote on FISA today Great Falls Tribune, MT - 2 hours ago It exempts telecommunication corporations from prosecution for giving President Bush and his federal agencies access to the companiesa data for purposes of ...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- The Montana-based financial services company D.A. Davidson has opened an office in Boston.
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Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Camelina is growing in popularity as a feedstock for biodiesel for its high oil content, hardy nature and short growing season… especially popular in the Northern Plains, such as Montana, where conditions can be a bit tough. But this story from The Prairie Star, a Great Falls-based publication serving Montana and parts of Wyoming, says researchers [...]
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
GREAT FALLS - Two environmental groups sued the Montana Department of Environmental Quality on Monday, alleging that the state has failed to limit greenhouse gas emissions in an air permit for a proposed coal-fired power plant east of Great Falls. Th ...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Great Falls, Montana, United States We arrived on the 25th a few days before we leave for Alaska so we could stock up and clean our rig. When we got there a few of our group were already at the park so we got to socialize with a few of our group early. The staff consist a nice couple from New York which will be our wagon masters and a nice couple from California...
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the Big Sky Blog (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
The 2008 Montana H.O.G. Rally will be held in and around Great Falls on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this week (June 26-28). H.O.G. stands for “Harley Owners Group,” by the way. This year, the H.O.G. is going for a pirate theme: Arrrr matey - Hoist anchor and set sail to join us in Great Falls, Montana [...]
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
GREAT FALLS - Montana is warming up to motorcyclists. The state Department of Transportation has put up a new Web site that suggests 10 of the best motorcycle rides in the state and at the same time dishes out a dose of advice for coming back from a r ...
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Montana wrestling brothers Bill and Mike Zadick of Great Falls and Tyrel Todd of Bozeman will all be competing at the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials in Las Vegas June 14-15. All three are competing in freestyle wrestling. ...
