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TOM LUTEY Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Saturday, August 1, 2009 12:00 am

Montana's State Land Board is being misled about $1.4 billion in potential profits from state-owned coal reserves in southeastern Montana, said mine critics who offered an alternative economic study Friday.

Working with the Northern Plains Resource Council, neighbors of the Otter Creek coal tracts near the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation released a counter appraisal Friday, which suggested that an earlier study prepared for the state by Norwest Corp. overstated Montana's would-be royalties.

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By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
Staff writer

GALLUP — An economist from Montana has a message for any community considering mining — particularly uranium mining — as an option for economic development: There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

By Richard Barrett and Thomas Michael Power

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Several American business groups -- including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) -- have launched nationwide campaigns to convince the public that a serious effort to limit the pollution that causes global warming would have catastrophic consequences for the American economy, while providing no significant benefits.