I moved cross country last year from the Great Upper Midwest to the Pacific West Coast but my heart and home remain in rural Minnesota on the border of the Dakotas. And great news arrived in San Francisco yesterday, "Otter Tail Power withdraws from Big Stone II" National Deputy Director, Marie Zellar from Clean Water Action called to say. Wow. Did I ever believe that I would see the day? That maybe, just maybe Bill Gates came to his senses and saw that building a coal-fired power plant did not make sense or 'cents' no matter how one looked at it? Yes. It's a new day for Big Stone, for the people, the air, the land, the waters flowing from the start of the Little Minnesota in South Dakota into Big Stone Lake then down the Minnesota river to the mighty Mississipp. Cheers! Bye, bye BSII!