[nathanbedford]

For the record, the Canadian mining industry generally regards Montana as a worse sovereign risk jurisdiction than Bolivia, Peru, or Brazil and certainly worse than Mongolia.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

His comments at the end of the article (at link) should be noted — Montana’s viability is being starved by spending on legal fights with environmentalists -— money that’s spent for lawyers (not on engineers), along with lost revenue that would be theirs to spend on schools, roads, sewers and basic services (something all states have been dealing with) — companies won’t come to a state with a business climate like that, they go to places like Texas.