Energy Awareness Annual Meetings in Med Lake And Lustre in October

October is EnergyAwareness Month (plus Electric Cooperative Month) and the Daniels County Leader wants its readers educated on the many facets of the subject because it plays such an enormous role in one’s daily life. Everything relates to energy! Example: how would you fare without electricity, propane, heating oil or wood (to put in a stove) during a cold northeast Montana winter? With that said, here are some facts, figures and notes to digest:

• The 77th annual meeting of the membership of Sheridan Electric Cooperative Inc. is scheduled for Saturday, October 5, at Medicine Lake High School. Registration is set for 8 a.m. with the business meeting at 10 a.m.

• The 16th annual meeting of NorVal Electric is scheduled for Thursday, October 22, at Lustre Christian High School. Registration will begin at 4:30 p.m. with a dinner to follow at 5:30 p.m. The business meeting begins shortly thereafter.

• Montana’s four remaining coal mines produced 28.14 million tons for the 12 months ending in September 2023, a decrease of a million tons compared to the same period a year earlier. The lone increase in production was Rosebud Mine, which is owned bt Westmoreland, increased by 75,505 tons.

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