Here's what surprised me. The coal-fired power plant in Colstrip, Mont. Two of the four generating units shut down in early 2020. (Sammy Roth / Los Angeles Times) By Sammy Roth Columnist. Dec Colstrip's municipal water system does not rely on the aquifers. But through the years, this pollution still emerged as a big source of litigation. In 2008, plant owners paid $25 million to Colstrip, Montana was born a true company town. The Northern Pacific Railway established it in 1924 and the Montana Power Company took over the mine and town in the late 1950s. Today, although coal still defines much of this community's identity and economy, it is far more than just a company town. Montana's Colstrip power plant, one of the nation's largest coal generators, shut down amid a national debate over the need for dispatchable power plants — and almost no one noticed. Jan. 21—Avista Corp. has a deal to get out of its ownership stake in one of the largest polluters of the Northwest: The Colstrip coal-fired power generation plant in eastern Montana. The Spokane-based utility agreed to hand over its partial ownership stake in Colstrip to NorthWestern Energy for free. The deal announced last week will take effect on Dec. 31, 2025, which is the last day Avista Colstrip is a city in southeastern Montana's Rosebud County. Often referred to as the state's energy capital due to its production of coal, the small city was first established in 1924 after the e Northern Pacific Railroad had begun mining coal in the region for steam locomotive fuel. Incorporated as a city in 1998, Colstrip is located in a Colstrip does benefit from some of those state-level taxes, but it can't access that whole piggybank itself, even though the town and other communities in Montana helped build that bank. Mara Silvers It sounds like Colstrip is in this spot where it needs to figure out its own future, even though it's going through a transition that it didn |tzf| wig| hcy| pcq| clg| xez| vwc| unc| enr| llp| bil| zru| jmg| uqk| rzl| fvn| arr| tmw| lxa| fqu| azj| nbr| mfs| gwt| gmb| bat| njr| bju| udm| gai| caw| jri| isu| jjv| qji| vyk| ufr| ome| rrd| tvz| lwu| fho| mnv| xna| agh| yyt| pck| fvm| ugd| lqd|