Dear Senator Baucus,

Have you given any thought as to what could happen to our state agricultural sales, if the environment in which it is produced were to become contaminated with toxins? These toxins will soon be and probably are now coming from coal-fired power plants. Please see www.cce-mt.org

Currently one of these belching monsters is being shoved down the throats of our local citizens without much thought about the environmental, agricultural, and health considerations.

This plant will be constructed with the aid of our Federal Agricultural Department funding sources. Thousands of us living here oppose this destructive plan. You should already have received a petition referencing this point.

It will ruin some of the most productive farmland in our state needlessly for the benefit of a few. The power is not now needed here and could be produced much more cheaply with alternative energy projects or simply upgrade our present old Missouri river hydro systems which have been in place approaching a century now.

This boondoggle has not been thought out or presented to the people to vote on. It will cost us hundreds of millions. It will ruin our health, our environment, and agricultural livelihoods.

We implore your help in turning this Big Coal behemoth around.

Thank you,

Neil J. Taylor