Archives for: March 2009, 06
March 6, 2009Industry backs Sen. Bales’ CO2-storage bill
Industry and natural-resource lobbyists lined up Thursday behind a Republican senator’s bill to set the stage for underground storage of carbon-dioxide in Montana, calling it the best way to approach the contentious subject. Sen. Keith Bales, R...
Posted in: The Helena IR on 03/06/09
Forest entomologist to give talk on pine beetle
Although small in size, the mountain pine beetle has had dramatically large impacts on lands, both locally and on a landscape level. On March 12 at 7 p.m. in the Helena Middle School auditorium, University of Montana Forest Entomology Professor Diana...
Posted in: The Helena IR on 03/06/09
Guest Opinion: Crow leader's vision will live on in Many Stars coal-to-fuels project
A highlight of being in business with Montana's Crow Nation is it afforded me the opportunity to spend time with a great man and a true friend, Chairman Carl Venne. Carl was one of those men who, even as we were involved in sometimes arduous negotiat...
Posted in: The Billings Gazette on 03/06/09
Industry supports CO2 bill
HELENA - Industry and natural-resource lobbyists lined up Thursday behind a Republican senator's bill to set the stage for underground storage of carbon dioxide in Montana, calling it the best way to approach the contentious subject. Sen. Keith Bales...
Posted in: The Billings Gazette on 03/06/09
Schweitzer releases plan for Montana Reinvestment Act
HELENA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer today unveiled details of an estimated $800 million in recovery and reinvestment funding from the federal government that will be invested in Montana over the next 28 months. The Montana Reinvestment Act bill is be...
Posted in: The Missoulian on 03/06/09



