Ahh, this is beautiful.  Usually, I like and admire Governor Schweitzer because he is so good at pounding our corrupt Republicans into the ground or ignoring them.  Nevertheless, this time he was totally wrong and the bid results proved it.  He’s still stuck in the 19th and early 20th century mode of thinking that raw materials production is Montana’s future, although we already learned long ago from the mining and timber industries that it is not.  Montana’s coal is plentiful but of very poor quality.  Forget the whole thing until better technologies come along a couple of decades from now, by which time these resources will be far more valuable than they are today.