From the Thursday, June 21, 2007 online edition of the Vancouver Sun . . .

The cross-border sexual odyssey of six fish from northern Montana to southern B.C. could help sink a planned multi-billion-dollar Canadian energy development that has spawned years of conflict between the U.S. and Canada.

A half-dozen cutthroat trout captured on the Flathead River south of the B.C.-Montana border and fitted with radio transmitters were tracked by researchers as they swam to spawning beds in Canada, giving hope to both American and Canadian critics of a proposed B.C. coal mine that efforts to protect the trout’s trans-boundary travels will help scuttle the controversial project.

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From the Tuesday, June 19, 2007 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .

Former Flathead County Attorney Tom Esch recently acted as an envoy for the Flathead Coalition, hand-delivering a letter expressing

From the Tuesday, June 19, 2007 online edition of the Flathead Beacon . . .

A U.S. Senate panel Tuesday approved nearly $1.3 million for collection of environmental data in the area where a Canadian company wants to develop a coal mine, just north of Glacier National Park.

Opponents of the mine want the environmental information for a baseline against which to gauge how the Cline Mining Corp. project may affect natural resources in the Flathead River region, which spans the Montana-British Columbia border.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., announced the allocation by a subcommittee working on appropriations for the Interior Department. Full committee action is likely Thursday, his staff said.

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From the Monday, June 18, 2007 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .

When the westslope cutthroat spawners were captured and surgically fitted with radio transmitters on the Flathead River between Columbia Falls and Kalispell this spring, state researchers had no idea where they

More information on the efforts of the road paving group from the Thursday, June 7, 2007 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .

The University of Montana has signed on to conduct an air-quality study for a coalition of residents in the North Fork area.

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From the Wednesday, June 6, 2007 online edition of the Hungry Horse News . . .

The prospect of coal bed methane mining in the Canadian Flathead has once again raised its head.

On May 15 officials from British Petroleum sent Gov. Brian Schweitzer a letter saying it was

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.

From the Wednesday, May 23, 2007 online edition of the Flathead Beacon . . .

With U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wading into the issue, Montana has called in the big guns to combat the proposed Cline coalmine project in the headwaters of the Flathead River’s North Fork in British Columbia.

At the urging of Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Rice pressed the Canadian federal government last month to invoke a more stringent environmental assessment of the proposed mine’s impacts than British Columbia’s government requires.

As of this writing, the Canadian federal government has not yet formally invoked its environmental assessment act. Until it does, the B.C. government retains authority over the mine’s permitting process.

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