The AP story on the upcoming Schweitzer-Campbell meeting, as posted to the online edition of CBC News on Sptember 3, 2005 . . .
British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell and Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and have set a date next week to discuss a number of boundary environmental issues, including controversial mining proposals just north of Glacier National Park.
"I'm sure they'll find they have a lot to talk about," Hal Harper, chief policy adviser to Schweitzer, said Wednesday of the Sept. 6 meeting in Victoria.
Schweitzer first pursued a meeting with Campbell several months ago to talk about a proposed exploratory coal mine in the headwaters of the North Fork Flathead River. The location of the proposed mine is an area that has been under dispute by the two countries for decades, ever since coal mining was first proposed there in the late 1970s.
Downstream interests have long worried that industrial pollution could taint pristine Montana waters.
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