Finally some international pressure on the coal pit/coalbed methane proposals just northwest of Glacier (and Waterton) National Parks-
United Nations Will Study Threats to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. By Dan Testa, Flathead Beacon (in New West)
Continue Reading →An Early Fall Float on the North Fork of the Flathead
This New West article with great photos describes floating the beautiful North Fork of the Flathead from its origin in British Columbia downstream to the US border??
I linked to it because I was just up there myself in BC to investigate, and […]
Continue Reading →Flathead Basin Commission hears of new coal mine. By Heidi Desch. Hungry Horse News.
Link to North Fork Landowners’ Association. Photos and new information about mining in the headwaters of the Flathead.
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Montana folks and politicians are very nervous about all this planned heavy activity (huge mountain removing […]
Continue Reading →British Petroleum has withdrawn their plans for massive industrialization of the area across the border, but adjacent to Glacier National Park, but B.P. other companies and the British Columbia government have lots of other awful plans for this general area.
Bordering on Catastrophe. Montana’s opposition helped kill a Canadian mining plan last week. But […]
Continue Reading →This is great news! BP drops Flathead coal-bed plan. By Michael Jamison. Missoulian.
I recently did a story on the grave threat of these wells to the water, air and land in British Columbia just NW of Glacier National Park.
The plans for the huge mountaintop coal mine (the Cline Mine) remain, however.
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Continue Reading →“Congress is coming to Kalispell [Montana] this week for a town hall meeting to discuss the proposed industrialization of Canadian wilds bordering Glacier National Park’s northern edge.”
US Senators Baucus and Tester are holding a meeting to discuss British Columbia’s plans to tear the hell out of upper Flathead river which drains directly into Montana.
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