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Committee kills Colstrip bill over consumer concerns


TOM LUTEY
A controversial bill to shield NorthWestern Energy from future financial losses associated with rescuing Colstrip Power Plant has been tabled.
In a lopsided vote late Wednesday, members of the House Energy Committee tabled Senate Bill 379 after concluding that the bill did nothing to save the southeast Montana power plant and made unheard of concessions to Montana’s largest monopoly utility. Only one House committee member supported the bill, which had cleared the Senate on mostly party lines. 
“We love coal, Montana was built on coal, many of us want to keep it. And so, to use that as an emotional leverage on us to support this bill,” said Chairman Derek Skees, a Kalispell Republican. “I wanted to explore how does it actually help Colstrip. So that if we pass this what does it do to guarantee that Colstrip doesn t shut down, which is what I think many of us are, at least in my caucus would want. . The answers are, this bill ....

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