A picture of the Colstrip Power Plant in Colstrip, Montana. (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan).
We just finished Christmas, but I still have enough pennies left in my bank account that I can scrounge together money to buy the NorthWestern Energy CEO a box of tissues for the tears he shed during his plea to Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte.
Last week, the two commiserated during a governor’s energy roundtable about how darn unfair the government, especially the Democratically led federal government, had been to the energy sector and big corporations like NorthWestern. There’s nothing quite as depressing during the holidays than two millionaires lamenting their economic desperation. And, that’s before the Montana Supreme Court decided that the plainspoken Montana Constitution meant what it said by a “clean and healthful environment.”…