NPRC/GTRC

Northern Plains Resource Council/Golden Triangle Resource Council

2025

• 10/10/2025 - Comments to the EPA on the proposed aquifer exemption expansion are due by October 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT. The EPA will only address comments that speak about the aquifer exemption expansion. Click here to make public comment. 

• 9/16/2025 - EPA hearing on Tuesday, September 23, at 5:30 p.m. at Conrad High School, 308 South Illinois Street
  • ​​​​In case you want to join the effort without physically going to Conrad, contact:  [email protected]
  • ​To learn more about this hearing, visit: https://northernplains.org/gtrc-biofuel/
    
  • Click here to join a carpool from Great Falls​​

• 8/29/2025 - Take a moment to contact the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and tell them to reject HB 587, which will allow coal companies off the hook for the damages they cause. (Link is no longer active).

• 6/10/2025 - Encourage Governor Gianforte to sign SB188: Give Montanans the Freedom to Choose Low Cost Energy

• 3/28/2025 - Tell the PSC to Reject Northwestern's Latest Rate Hike Request

2024

• 9/05/2024 - ACTION ALERT: Tell Senator Daines to stop stealing from Musselshell County!

Submit Your Comment

• 8/09/2024 -  please submit a comment to help kill the "zombie coal bill," MT HB 576. Deadline is 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 14, 2024. https://northernplains.org/campaign/protect-montanas-coal-impacted-communities/
  

• 4/13/2024 - Deadline 9:00 a.m. April 17th: Eastern Montana's ag lands are not Exxon's dumping grounds!

• 2/29/2024 - Here is your chance to sign NPRC's petition to the PSC asking them to consider climate change in future rulings. 

• 2/23/2024 - Northern Plains Resource Council's petition to extend public comment time to sequester carbon on public land in Carter County, MT

• 1/23/2024 - ​Northern Plains Resource Council has asked for help to protect groundwater in Pondera County
  ​​Comments must be submitted by 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 24, 2024

2023

• 11/03/2023 - Northern Plains Resource Council - Comments requested to OSMRE
  ​November 5, 2023 at midnight is the deadline to send your comments to OSMRE (Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement) concerning HB576 and SB392. More information about these two bills and suggested wording for your comments can be found here. 

• 1/17/2023 - Northern Plains Resource Council Petition
  Tell Interior Secretary Haaland to stand up to the criminally convicted Signal Peak Energy. 
  ​https://northernplains.org/campaign/tell-interior-sec-haaland-to-stand-up-to-the-criminally-convicted-signal-peak-energy/​

2022

• 2/07/2022 - Northern Plains Resource Council Petition
  ​Register your objection to adopting a narrative standard for water quality in Montana’s waterways. Deadline to sign is midnight 2/07/22 - https://northernplains.org/protect-our-waterways/

2021

11/27/21 - Stop NorthWestern Energy's Laurel Methane Plant

Click here to read Northern Plains talking points about NorthWestern Energy's proposed Laurel Methane Plant. A sample 'letter to the editor' can be found here.