Steve Daines
120:47 - 121:29
"Chairman Sweat, there are multiple large hydropower projects up for relicensing in Montana, including the Thompson DAM. Will you work closely with resource agencies and push back against indirect or costly mandatory conditions imposed by agencies on existing projects? Thank you, Senator. Yes, we are spending an inordinate amount of time on hydro during this commission right now, more than this commission ever has focused on it, because it is so important, because those licenses are coming up for renewal and I myself am personally actively pushing back on those types of conditions when I become aware of them and they hold our processes up."
“Chairman Sweat, there are multiple large hydropower projects up for relicensing in Montana, including the Thompson DAM. Will you work closely with resource agencies and push back against indirect or costly mandatory conditions imposed by agencies on existing projects? Thank you, Senator. Yes, we are spending an inordinate amount of time on hydro during this commission right now, more than this commission ever has focused on it, because it is so important, because those licenses are coming up for renewal and I myself am personally actively pushing back on those types of conditions when I become aware of them and they hold our processes up.”
- Speaker
- Steve Daines
- Timestamp
- 120:47 – 121:29
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- July 22, 2026
From the transcript
Um, now for, uh, the chairman. Chairman Sweat, there are multiple large hydropower projects up for relicensing in Montana, including the Thompson DAM. Will you work closely with resource agencies and push back against indirect or costly mandatory conditions imposed by agencies on existing projects? Thank you, Senator. Yes, we are spending an inordinate amount of time on hydro during this commission right now, more than this commission ever has focused on it, because it is so important, because those licenses are coming up for renewal and I myself am personally actively pushing back on those types of conditions when I become aware of them and they hold our processes up.
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