August 17, 2017 - Lignite Energy Council

North Dakota’s largest power plant: Coal Creek Station

Coal Creek Station near Underwood, ND. Trains, trucks, cars and conveyors make Rainbow Energy’s Coal Creek Station near Underwood, North Dakota, look like a giant model of perpetual motion. Built in the late 1970s, the...

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2018 Coal Calendar Photo Contest

The contest has ended, thank you to all who participated! Winners will be contacted via email.

Member Update

New administration brings sea change to regulations impacting industry

As the saying goes “elections have consequences.” That phrase could not have been truer for North Dakota’s lignite industry. On November 7, 2016, North Dakota was looking at a number of federal regulations aimed at...

Member Update

LEC Fall Conference Preview – October 4-5, 2017

Lori Shaw | Oct. 4 When Lori Shaw saw the negative messages against her coal mining hometown of Colstrip, Montana, she and a friend founded Colstrip United, a grassroots movement dedicated to making the lesser-known,...

Member Update

Meeting Spaces Offered to LEC Members

The Lignite Energy Council would like to extend an offer to all of our Members the use of meeting space before, during or following the Fall Conference. The Lignite Energy Council has reserved several large...

Member Update

LEC members participate in ND and MN golfing events

More than 300 golfers participated in the CoalPAC ND Golf Tournament on July 27. Hawktree, Apple Creek and Painted Woods golf courses handled the golfers playing a scramble. In the evening, they all met at...

Member Update

Lignite Research Council approves two R&D proposals at its August meeting

Two projects approved by the Lignite Research Council on August 3 will now go before the North Dakota Industrial Commission on August 22, said Mike Holmes, vice president of research and development for the Lignite...

Member Update

Lignite Energy Council/Coalition for a Secure Energy Future visits the ND State Fair

Steve Van Dyke and Megan Babel from the Lignite Energy Council and Mike Reidman from Basin Electric Power Cooperative were among the people promoting the energy industry during Co-op Day at the North Dakota State...

Member Update

Minnesota PUC Increases “Cost of Carbon Dioxide” Calculation for Utilities

More than 20 years ago, Minnesota enacted a law requiring the state’s Public Utilities Commission (or PUC) to set a cost for the greenhouse gases and air pollutants emitted by electric power generation. The state’s...

Member Update

Member Outlet

As a service to our 300 contractor/supplier members, the Lignite Energy Council would like to offer assistance in promoting our members’ activities and accomplishments. Please send either a 300×300 pixel camera-ready graphic and/or no more...