Jun 26 2009
The Vancouver Sun has a couple of pieces up on the decision by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to investigate threats to Waterton-Glacier Park. There is a basic heads-up article and a short pictorial. The Tyee also has a pretty decent write-up with some handy links to related material. There’s an AP/Canadian Press article making [...]
Jun 26 2009
From a “Breaking News” post in today’s online edition of the Missoulian . . . UNESCO will send a mission to Canada to judge for itself the threat posed by a planned Canadian coal mine to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The group’s World Heritage Commission, meeting in Seville, Spain, voted Friday to send the delegation, [...]
Jun 26 2009
The Flathead Beacon has picked up on the story about the UNESCO World Heritage Committee’s decision to send a delegation to investigate threats to Waterton-Glacier Park. Here’s the lead-in from a nicely written article by Dan Testa . . . The United Nations plans to send a fact-finding mission to Canada to investigate environmental threats [...]
Jun 26 2009
According to the Waterton-Glacier in Danger web log, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has voted unanimously to send a delegation to investigate threats to Waterton-Glacier Park posed by resource development activities. Here’s the lead-in from the press release. See the Waterton-Glacier in Danger site for details and breaking news . . . Seville, Spain–UNESCO’s World Heritage [...]
Jun 23 2009
Today’s post on the Waterton-Glacier Endangered web log includes information on the UN World Heritage Committee draft resolution concerning the dangers posed to Waterton and Glacier parks by resource extraction in the Flathead headwaters region — the proposed Cline Mine, in particular. According to the posting, the first draft of the resolution does not explicitly [...]
