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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>Study coal shipments&#8217; environmental effects, says Missoula councilor &#8211; Missoulian, May 15, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/study-coal-shipments-environmental-effects-says-missoula-councilor/article_239433f8-9ef4-11e1-abb2-0019bb2963f4.html By KEILA SZPALLER With potential increases in coal train traffic through Missoula, City Councilman Dave Strohmaier is calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study the widespread impacts – including ones in Montana – of building Pacific Coast export facilities for the fuel. “My most immediate goal is that we would actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yellowstone County planning board seeks rail traffic study &#8211; Billings Gazette, May 14, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/county-planning-board-seeks-rail-traffic-study/article_eef8aa93-1282-5987-9377-3405daf9f598.html Commissioners may support review if coal references are dropped By Clair Johnson A study of increased rail traffic through Yellowstone County may be on track for getting support from county commissioners — provided it doesn’t pick on coal. During a discussion meeting Monday afternoon with Yellowstone County commissioners, Paul Gatzemeier, president of the Yellowstone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Routine blast unleashes torrent in mine &#8211; Helena Independent Record, May 15, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://helenair.com/news/local/routine-blast-unleashes-torrent-in-mine/article_6d4b8b36-9f1c-11e1-a8ca-0019bb2963f4.html By EVE BYRON The Drumlummon gold mine near Marysville abruptly shut down operations late Sunday afternoon after a routine blasting operation released close to a million gallons of water that had been encapsulated underground in some historic workings. All but one of the dozen miners working their shift were on the surface — which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kicking the coal habit &#8211; Audubon Magazine, May-June 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.audubonmagazine.org/articles/climate/kicking-coal-habit? BY TED WILLIAMS Excerpts follow (click on link above to read full article)  *** “Coal is cheap,” Rosebud mine’s neighbor Nick Golder told me at his ranch just north of Lame Deer, “because the industry doesn’t pay its bills.” Golder started ranching here in 1947 and since then has spent more time than he can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free movie &#8216;Gasland&#8217; May 17 at Yogo Inn in Lewistown</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gasland 5:30 p.m., May 17 Yogo Inn Lewistown Free A free screening of the compelling, award-winning documentary Gasland will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 17, at the Yogo Inn in Lewistown. In the film, family ranchers and farmers in oil and gas fields talk about the real effects of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana ranchers back poll findings that favor clean energy over old, dirty energy &#8211; April 25, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civil Society Institute website View the report  Water quality all-important in Montana By Northern Plains Resource Council BILLINGS, Mont. &#8212; For farmers and ranchers in Montana and the rest of the United States, clean water is the lifeblood of their livelihood. In a March 2012 nationwide poll, eight out of 10 Americans agree that “water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coal train traffic analyzed at local forums &#8211; Public News Service, April 17, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/25898-1 Deb Courson Smith Public News Service &#8211; MT MISSOULA &#8211; The amount of coal train traffic running through Montana is expected to at least double, as coal exports are stepped up. The trains will haul coal, mostly from Wyoming, to Washington and Oregon for shipment to Asia. There&#8217;s a meeting tonight in Missoula to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bozeman Chronicle editorial: Train traffic could have ill effects for Bozeman &#8211; April 5, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Winslow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/article_5b044846-8031-11e1-8e9d-0019bb2963f4.html Coal mined from one of the largest coal deposits in the world could more than triple the amount of train traffic that goes through Bozeman in the coming years. Communities in eastern Montana and Wyoming would benefit from a coming coal boom that some see shaping up. Cities on the West Coast and Asian [...]]]></description>
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