From the Wednesday, May 5, 2004 edition of the Hungry Horse News . . .
The impacts of a Canadian coal mine on the Flathead could pale in comparison to coal bed methane development in the area, Canadian and American interests told the Flathead River Basin Commission members Monday.
"The coal mine prospect is not the clear and present danger that coal bed methane development is," said Fernie, British Columbia, Councilman David Thomas. "We're talking (about wells) the entire breadth of the Rocky Mountains."
Test wells for coal bed methane development have already been dug in both the Canadian Flathead--known here as the North Fork of the Flathead--and in the Elk River Valley.
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