Monthly Archives: June 2008

Dupont ousts Hall in GOP showdown

News, ,

Apologies for all the political news today. This item is relevant because “roads and dust” was a hot button during the primary and because Hall’s approach to the issue likely cost him some votes.

From the Wednesday, June 4, 2008 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .

Jim Dupont has limited Gary Hall to one term as Flathead County commissioner.

Dupont, longtime former sheriff, far outdistanced incumbent Commissioner Hall in Tuesday’s primary election to win the Republican nomination for the county’s top job.

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Dupont campaigned on three key issues: roads and dust, public safety and private property rights. He said he is running because he believes the county needs someone on the commission who can make better decisions.

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Protect Waterton-Glacier park, groups implore UN

Environmental Issues, News

From the Wednesday, June 4, 2008 online edition of the Globe & Mail . . .

Several leading environmental groups in the U.S. and Canada have written to the United Nations asking that proposed energy developments along British Columbia’s Flathead River be investigated as threats to a World Heritage Site.

In a letter sent yesterday, the organizations state that Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which links globally significant national parks in Alberta and Montana, be placed on the UN’s World Heritage in Danger list.

“There is substantial danger that the existing statutory and regulatory framework will fail to adequately protect Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and its surrounding lands from adverse impacts caused by mining and CBM [coal bed methane] development in the headwaters of the Flathead River,” the groups state in a letter to Francesco Bandarin, director of the UN’s World Heritage Centre.

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