What a turnaround in the space of 3 years!
In 2008 I took a 2 week trip to the headwaters of the famed North Fork of the Flathead River in B.C. to say goodbye to one of North America’s premier fish and wildlife areas, not to mention its incredible beauty.
Huge open pit coal mines, […]
Continue Reading →More good news, and just a few years ago every day seemed to bring bad news for the North Fork of the Flathead River-
Tester, Baucus renew effort to protect Flathead River Basin. By Rob Chaney. Missoulian.
Continue Reading →Controversy began 1n 1974-
Well what a cause for celebration this is! I can remember I was just starting to explore the wild country as a young man back in 1974 when Sage Creek Coal proposed a big coal mine on Cabin Creek, a tributary to the North Fork of the Flathead. In 2008 I […]
Continue Reading →The devil could be in the details-
Some think the mining ban could have been to cut off growing provincial demands for a park in the area to complement Waterton NP in Alberta and Glacier in the United States.
Details on Canadian Flathead mining ban short – for now. By Rob Chaney. Missoulian.
Gold deposit discovered on ridge visible from Glacier in the North Fork Flathead River-
First it was coal mining, then coal bed methane, now gold; and all the pollution runs into the United States.
Canadian company claims rich gold find north of Glacier National Park, raising concerns. By Michael Jamison. Missoulian
Continue Reading →Senator Baucus tells Secretry of Interior about the many threats from British Columbia-
The latest threat to the river and Glacier National Park is gold mining.
Interior chief Salazar visits North Fork. Missoulian. By Michael Jamison. BC’s indifference, I think, or at least hope, is mostly an accident of geography because no one lives […]
Continue Reading →The massive Foisey Creek coal development in B.C. (the Lodgepole coal pit and 2000 coal bed methane wells) is becoming an international issue.
UN to hear petition. The Globe and Mail. By Mark Hume.
Earlier in this blog.
5/15/09. North Fork Flathead plight in U.N. spotlight
9/5/08. Another coal mine planned […]
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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