The local Cline Mine public meetings are getting some coverage in Canada. Here's an article from the Tuesday, January 16, 2007 online edition of the CBC News . . .
Hundreds of residents of Montana turned out at a public meeting Monday night to speak against a controversial coal mine proposed in southeastern B.C. near the Canada-U.S. border.
Canadian-based Cline Mining plans to develop a mine in the Flathead Valley, just upstream from the Montana border.
If the B.C. government gives final approval to the mine near the mountain resort community of Fernie, it would produce two million tonnes of coal a year from a valley renowned for its abundance of wildlife and lack of development.
The company says the mine will meet B.C.'s environmental standards. But many Montana residents have expressed fears it will pollute their pristine mountain valley.
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