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Original Caption: Ranch lands in the Powder River Basin near Colstrip. Long-range plans call for massive strip-mining of the area and the construction of huge power plants capable of producing 200,000 megawatts of power. The power plants would emit more minute separate particles than New York City and Los Angeles combined, 06/1973

U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-6670

Photographer: Norton, Boyd

Subjects: Environmental protection Natural resources Pollution Billings (Montana, United States) inhabited place

Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/549156

Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

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Date Taken in June 1973
Source Ranch lands in the Powder River Basin near Colstrip. Long-range plans call for massive strip-mining..., 06/1973
Author The U.S. National Archives
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Camera location45° 47′ 01.18″ N, 108° 30′ 19.88″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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