Gov. Schweitzer is betting Montana’s future–and just maybe his own–on clean coal. Why is nobody buying it?

August 10, 2007

To use one of the governor’s own jabs, “You ought to get out where there’s a light shining once in a while” if you can’t name Brian Schweitzer’s top policy initiative. If you’re familiar with the folksy, fast-talking, sometimes combative, Democratic cowboy outside of Big Sky Country, chances are coal is the reason.

By: John S. Adams

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Why not wind instead of coal?

By RICHARD ECKE Tribune Staff Writer

Critics of the proposed Highwood Generating Station have been saying for months that wind power could eliminate the need for the coal-fired plant.

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