Now BP Canada wants to drill coalbed methane wells in the Canadian Flathead.
From the Thursday, May 31, 2007 online edition of the Missoulian . . .
Brand-new plans to drill for coalbed methane in a wilderness valley north of Glacier National Park have Montana officials looking for a permanent solution to the decades-long debate over energy development in southeastern British Columbia.
“We're tired of fighting this project after project after project,” said Rich Moy. “What we need to develop is a long-term solution that protects the integrity of the Flathead River system.”
Moy is top boss at Montana's Water Resources Division, and over the past three decades has worked with five different governors to buffer the Flathead River basin from Canadian energy development just north of the border.
The ongoing international dispute first surfaced in the 1970s, when coal interests sought to expand open-pit mining operations into the Canadian Flathead. The river pouring south from that wilderness valley crosses the border to form the western boundary of Glacier National Park, before spilling into Flathead Lake.
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