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Click on the locations shown on the Montana map for plant details:
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|45.880278, -106.61333~Colstrip Steam Plant~Click '''[[Colstrip Steam Plant|here]]''' for more information.;
45.77623, -108.48085~Corette Plantt~Click '''[[Corette Plant|here]]''' for more information.;
45, -107~Hardin Generating Station~Click '''[[Hardin Generating Station|here]]''' for more information.;
47.678611, -104.158~Lewis & Clark Station~Click '''[[Lewis & Clark Station|here]]''' for more information.;
45.975156, -106.655244~Rosebud Power Plant~Click '''[[Rosebud Power Plant|here]]''' for more information.;
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SW: →Existing coal plants: maps sentence
==Existing coal plants==
Montana had 7 coal-fired generating stations in 2005, with 2,536 MW of capacity - representing 47.3% of the state's total electric generating capacity.
Here is more info on the Colstrip power plant, the only coal power plant in Montana with capacity over 400 MW:<ref name="EIA"/><ref>Environmental Integrity Project, [http://www.dirtykilowatts.org/Dirty_Kilowatts2007.pdf "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants"], July 2007.</ref><ref>[http://carma.org/dig Dig Deeper], Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed June 2008.</ref>
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Thus, the Colstrip plant single-handedly represents 89.6% of Montana's coal energy generating capacity, 51.3% of the state's ''total'' CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, and 25.6% of its ''total'' SO<sub>2</sub> emissions.<ref name="eRedux"/>
''For a map of existing coal plants in the state, see the bottom of this page.''
==Major coal mines==
