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Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester keynote Harvesting Clean Energy conference – Education key for energy development

Tester and Baucus both said that innovation and entrepreneurship will drive clean energy development. Development is needed now, but in the future, education will be key.

Montana Senators Max Baucus http://baucus.senate.gov/ and Jon Tester http://tester.senate.gov/ were keynote speakers for the ninth annual Harvesting Clean Energy conference Sunday, which was the beginning of three days of presentations by experts in agriculture and energy.

Sen. Tester believes rural Montana will play a role in developing solutions to a growing energy crisis, and Sen. Baucus, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, helped to draft legislation that will provide about $84 billion in tax incentives and funding for clean energy development. The proposal is part of the Congressional economic stimulus package.

"The goal is to get as much of that up front as possible," Baucus said, adding that the funding boost is aimed at cutting consumption of foreign oil, reducing hazardous emissions and creating jobs.

By LAURA TODE
Of The Gazette Staff

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/26/news/local/38-education.txt

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Energy development on reservations still a go

By ERIC NEWHOUSE • Tribune Projects Editor

Although crude oil prices have hit five-year lows, a Denver investment firm says it still is interested in spending hundreds of millions of dollars on energy development on two Montana Indian reservations.

"That’s what our company does," Lynn Becker, vice president of Native American Resource Partners http://www.mikekieffer.com/ , said last week.

Native American Resource Partners

405 South Main Street, Suite 900

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: (801) 708-6825

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20090126/NEWS01/901260303/1002/news01

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