Feb 27 2011
A very informative article posted late last night to the Missoulian’s web site . . . While about 80 percent of existing energy exploration leases in the North Fork Flathead have been retired by the world’s leading oil, gas and mining companies, a handful of parcels remain in contention by smaller firms. Those holdings include [...]
Nov 22 2010
BP has climbed on the bandwagon, retiring their local oil and gas leases, including “a 394-acre parcel near the Polebridge entrance to Glacier National Park.” The Missoulian has the story . . . The oil company BP voluntarily gave up its rights to explore for energy along the western border of Glacier National Park, U.S. [...]
Sep 11 2010
From today’s Missoulian . . . Another 11 oil and gas exploration leases along the west side of Glacier National Park have been voluntarily released, according to Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester. XTO Energy has decided not to pursue its development options on about 21,000 acres along the North Fork of the Flathead [...]
Aug 06 2010
Posted early this morning to the Missoulian’s website . . . A measure that would ban federal-land mining along Glacier National Park’s western edge has passed a major Senate hurdle, and has been expanded to provide water-quality protections for nearby communities… …the bill banning future federal mine leases has been expanded from its original to [...]
Aug 06 2010
From the Associated Press . . . Montana’s U.S. Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced today that their federal legislation to protect the Upper Flathead Valley has cleared a major hurdle. Read the full article . . .
Aug 27 2009
The Flathead Beacon has an excellent article on the issues surrounding oil leases on the North Fork. Dan Testa really did his homework on this one. Here’s a teaser . . . During Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s Aug. 11 visit to the North Fork of the Flathead River, he heard from members of various local [...]
