From the Wednesday, February 27, 2008 online edition of the Flathead Beacon . . .
The announcement by British Petroleum last week that it was dropping plans to drill for coal-bed methane in the Canadian Flathead was cause for celebration for just about everyone in Montana downstream of the proposed project. But BP’s pullback only underscores the ongoing proposals to mine and drill in the area that remain.
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With BP backing off of the Canadian Flathead, focus once again shifts to the Cline Mining Corporation. Cline is applying to remove 40 million tons of coal over the next 20 years from a mountaintop about 25 miles north of the border on the Crowsnest coalfield, which critics say could dump pollutants into Foisey Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Flathead River.
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