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$40 million to cover impacts from closure of coal-fired units?

djohnson| March 6, 2017| Home Page - Read the Latest, Media Center, News

The future of Colstrip and its big coal-fired power plant, which will lose two of its four units sometime in the next five years, will be big discussion topics in the second half of the Montana Legislature, with one bill in the works calling for two of the plant’s owners to pay about $40 million between them to cover social and economic impacts caused by the reduction in power.

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