From the Thursday, January 18, 2007 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council on Wednesday unanimously endorsed a letter raising concerns about potential coal mining in British Columbia’s Flathead drainage.
The letter, drafted by Montana’s representatives on the council, was discussed at the council’s meeting in Vancouver, Wash. It will be sent to the British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office in Victoria.
“The Northwest Power and Conservation Council is deeply concerned about the potential of negative downriver impacts to fish, wildlife and overall water conditions in the Flathead and Columbia basins from the proposed Cline Mine just north of the Montana-British Columbia border on the North Fork of the Flathead River,” according to the letter.
“The council extensively funds mitigation projects for critical species in the Flathead drainage, including bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout, which will be impacted by the proposed mine,” it continues.
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