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	<description>Get involved and make a difference by becoming a member of Northern Plains Resource Council. Northern Plains organizes Montana citizens to protect our water quality, family farms and ranches, and unique quality of life. We are a grassroots conservation and family agriculture group that gets the job done - protecting the Northern Plains and the people who make their home here.</description>
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		<title>Marysville-area residents organize to ensure mine works with community &#8211; Feb. 17, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Northern Plains Resource Council Marysville-area residents recently organized to protect the values of their small community and ensure the responsible development of the Drumlummon Gold Mine northwest of Helena. The Marysville Area Citizens Council (MACC) is “a group of concerned property owners that believes we all have a shared responsibility to protect our community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UM Nobel laureate speaking against Gov. Schweitzer’s MT coal efforts in China &#8211; Montana Public Radio, Feb. 13, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read and listen to the Montana Public Radio interviews with Schweitzer and Running Governor Brian Schweitzer continues working on deals to sell Montana coal to China. Schweitzer met with coal companies during a recent trip to China. A prominent Montana environmental scientist has some major problems with that. Governor Schweitzer discussed coal during a press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protection of Otter Creek Valley stays in hands of Land Board &#8211; Feb. 8, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Northern Plains Resource Council BROADUS, Mont.  &#8211; Judge Joseph Hegel of the 16th Judicial District in Powder River County issued a mixed ruling February 3 on a lawsuit against the State Land Board for leasing the Otter Creek coal tracts without first considering the environmental consequences. This ruling puts off until late in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest opinion: Keystone XL permit denial gives TransCanada time to do it right &#8211; Billings Gazette, Jan. 29, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/guest-opinion-keystone-xl-permit-denial-gives-transcanada-time-to/article_6cb79aaa-682f-5d2b-a798-ef73edd5b305.html By DARRELL GAROUTTE I am a landowner whose ranch would be crossed by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. I don’t want a huge pipeline carrying tar sands bitumen across my property but, in the end, I suppose I’ll be forced to give up land for this project. If you were in my shoes, would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest editorial: Mining Montana coal comes with a high cost &#8211; Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Jan. 25, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/guest_columnists/article_32cea5f4-492e-11e1-be13-001871e3ce6c.html By John Vincent We all know there&#8217;s no such thing as a free lunch. Sooner or later, one way or another, there&#8217;s a price to be paid, whether economic, social or environmental. That holds true for the shipment of Montana coal from the Otter Creek coal deposits just like it does for everything else. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter: Obama made right call on pipeline &#8211; Helena Independent Record, Jan. 22, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://helenair.com/news/opinion/obama-made-right-call-on-pipeline/article_20b376de-44c8-11e1-81ea-001871e3ce6c.html Jonathan Windy Boy, Your Turn I want to praise President Barack Obama for his decision and standing with tribes and landowners by rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline. This decision reflects the need for an additional supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement that would study many of the remaining needs such as: An emergency response plan; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana landowners welcome rejection of Keystone XL pipeline &#8211; Jan. 18, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Northern Plains Resource Council Today, President Obama and the State Department announced they have rejected the Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. This decision reflects the need for an additional supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement that would study many of the remaining unanswered questions about the Keystone XL pipeline. The President had announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bozeman Daily Chronicle guest column: Tongue River Railroad not in nation&#8217;s best interest &#8211; Jan. 14, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/article_e95162e0-41f8-11e1-ae7a-0019bb2963f4.html By Mark Fix Holding up the coal-to-China railroad, also known as the Tongue River Railroad (TRR), was the best thing to happen in eastern Montana in a long time. In late December, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that much of the decision-making to permit the railroad was &#8220;arbitrary and capricious,&#8221; which is [...]]]></description>
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