Question As Yet Unanswered

Every time I read a story about <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> talking about making fuel from coal, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050825/pl_nm/energy_montana_dc">like this newest one</a>, in Eastern Montana I ask the question, " what makes Schweitzer or anyone else think the Northern Plains Resource Council (<acronym title="Northern Plains Resource Council">NPRC</acronym>) and other environmental groups allow this to happen?"<br />n<br />nI would love to see some of the coal resources in my area exploited more but any time you talk about it the <acronym title="Northern Plains Resource Council">NPRC</acronym> does everything in its power to shoot it down. Just look at the battle over the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2005/07/31/build/state/50-supco-plant.inc">battle over the power plant in Roundup</a> if you wonder if the environmental groups would be capable of stopping such a thing.<br />n<br />nI will also point out that the proposed area for this development is on the border of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe has a very strong spiritual connection to their land, as do many other people who live in this area, and also tend to fight things that might pollute it.<br />n<br />nNowhere has either Brian Schweitzer or the cadre of Schweitzer sycophants out there ever addresed this very important issue involved with the Gov's plan. Some day maybe the press will start asking this tough question to the Governor but until then the Governor's media machine will keep Schweitzer's name in the press in such a good light that nobody dares challenge him.<br />n<br />n<b>The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. George Gordon Noel Byron</b>