And this is now, Hydro One announcing Wednesday a $6.7 billion cash deal to buy U.S. energy company Avista Corp., to be finalized next year.
Avista, based in Spokane, Wash., burns coal, lots of it, to supply electricity to its customers in four states in the U.S. northwest, through its part ownership of the giant Colstrip coal-fired power plant near Billings, Montana.
According to a February, 2014 article in the Spokane Spokesman-Review: “Colstrip produced nearly 13 1/2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in 2012, according to EPA data.
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