From the Tuesday, January 16, 2007 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
Gov. Brian Schweitzer says Montana’s issues with proposed coal mine development in British Columbia’s Flathead drainage will have to be taken to the federal level.
And Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., says he will pursue the matter at that level in several ways.
The two headlined a meeting Monday in Kalispell organized by the Flathead Basin Commission to drum up Montana comments for a British Columbia environmental review process.
The Toronto-based Cline Mining Co. wants to develop a mountaintop removal mine above Foisey Creek, a tributary that flows into Canada’s Flathead River, which becomes the North Fork Flathead River as it flows south of the border, eventually into Flathead Lake.
Schweitzer told a crowd of about 180 people that his efforts to convince the British Columbia government to address Montana concerns have not been as successful as he had hoped.
“I was hoping that we could work this out with British Columbia directly,” he said. “But for the life of me, I’ve been looking for the things that would amount to a collaborative agreement and I haven’t seen anything that looks like a collaborative agreement.”
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