Archive for February, 2009

Feb 06 2009

State may get $2 million riverfront property

Published by nfpa under Environmental Issues, News

From the Wednesday, February 4, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is closing in on two waterfront land acquisitions with Bonneville Power Administration funding.
A 245-acre parcel of undeveloped land along Foy’s Bend on the Flathead River south of Kalispell is being purchased for just more than [...]

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Feb 06 2009

Bennett fires back with haughty e-mail

Published by nfpa under Environmental Issues, News

Here’s a curiousity. Just a year ago, Bill Bennett, British Columbia’s mining minister, was forced to resign due to some wildly intemperate remarks regarding opposition to resource development in the Canadian Flathead. Bennett, now Tourism, Culture and Arts Minister, is at it again. This time, he was responding to a Fernie area tourism operator accusing [...]

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Feb 01 2009

Groups renew call to expand Waterton into B. C. river valley

Published by nfpa under Environmental Issues, News

From the Saturday, January 31, 2009 online edition of the Calgary Herald . . .
Conservation groups are renewing calls for Waterton Lakes National Park to be expanded into the Flathead River Valley, despite British Columbia’s decision to close the door to coal bed methane development in the ecologically key area in southeastern B.C.
The Sierra Club, [...]

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