From the Wednesday, March 14, 2007 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
Although his original approach didn’t get past the committee level, Rep. Doug Cordier, D-Columbia Falls, says funding for continuing study of environmental conditions in the North Fork Flathead River corridor is advancing in another bill.
Cordier initially proposed a bill that would provide $318,000 to the Flathead Basin Commission to be used mostly for continuing “baseline study” of current conditions in the North Fork.
If a coal mine is developed in British Columbia’s Flathead, information gathered from the study would help Montana detect and quantify environmental impacts.
The bill was tabled in the House Appropriations Committee, but funding was included in another bill, House Bill 7, that provides grant funding for the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, which oversees the basin commission.
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