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How Investors Are Getting Rich Off Of This Montana Town

Peyton Olson| July 14, 2025| News

This video by More Perfect Union, featuring MEIC’s Anne Hedges, exposes how for-profit utility companies, like NorthWestern Energy, invest in the most expensive energy resources in order to maximize corporate profits at the expense of bill-paying customers.

 

Watch it here.

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Last modified: August 7, 2025

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