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The Colstrip calamity: They got the gold, we get the shaft

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Once again Montanans get to re-experience the all too well-known disaster of a major corporation operating an industrial facility, producing prodigious amounts of toxic and hazardous waste, and then declaring bankruptcy. After hundreds of millions of dollars in publicly funded cleanups at abandoned mines and industrial sites, one might wonder “When will our politicians learn their lesson and stop sticking Montanans with the outrageous cleanup costs?”

 

George Ochenski

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