From the Thursday, May 27, 2004 issue of the Hungry Horse News . . .
A group of about 45 people from both Canada and the United States gathered last week to begin organizing an effort to oppose coal bed methane and coal mine development in the Canadian Flathead.
The Flathead Coalition first sprang to life in 1975 to organize campaigns against coal mining in the Canadian Flathead then. It was active in the 1980s and pretty much dismantled in the 1990s, when the coal market took a tumble and the prospect of mining coal north of the border diminished.
Now, with two projects on tap--coal bed methane development near Fernie and a coal mine proposed about six miles north of the Canadian border not far from Glacier National Park --the group has reformed.
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