Take Back Our Power Sign On Letter

Take Back Our Power Montana

NorthWestern Energy has recently announced they plan to acquire majority ownership of Colstrip. To express our overwhelming concerns about this issue, we have created a petition and are working to gather thousands of signatures in the coming months. We plan to deliver the petition and signatures to NorthWestern and the PSC at the beginning of April.

Please sign here and help spread the word.

To: Montana’s Public Service Commission and Northwestern Energy Leadership

From: Families for a Livable Climate, Montana parents and caregivers, and other supporters

As citizens of Montana and customers of Northwestern Energy, we need your leadership to ensure a livable climate for our families. Shockingly, Northwestern Energy’s proposed acquisition of majority ownership of the aging Colstrip power plant in Montana will triple the use of coal for electricity generation while they fail to invest with any significance in wind or solar power. It is unacceptable that the financial, health, and environmental cost of Northwestern’s short-sighted decision-making, and the billions of dollars to upgrade the plant, will be passed on to consumers and continue to raise our rates and threaten our safety. 

Northwestern Energy is the only utility in North America that is expanding investment in coal, one of the most polluting, expensive and carbon-intensive energy sources of the past. Northwestern Energy is falling behind in the energy transition and consumers are paying for it.

We implore you to act now to exit coal, decrease carbon emissions immediately, and join the clean energy revolution and support community-based innovation. 

Renewable power is clean, healthy, less expensive than coal, and equally or more reliable when combined with storage. NorthWestern Energy’s reluctance to invest in these technologies while greenwashing methane gas and saddling ratepayers with Colstrip debt is holding all Montanans back. For the sake of all our families, please stop stalling and start resourcing new installations of affordable, renewable energy.

Read a more detailed fact sheet here!