From the Thursday, July 7, 2005 online edition of the Missoulian . . .
The U.S. State Department is worried about potential downstream impacts of Canadian coal mining, but its counterpart in Ottawa insists negotiations should happen at the state rather than federal level.
"The U.S. government has been following the activities in the Flathead River area closely," Charles Shapiro wrote in a recent letter to Gov. Brian Schweitzer.
Shapiro is acting assistant secretary for the State Department, to which Schweitzer appealed for help earlier this year.
In his May 24 request, Schweitzer asked the State Department and its equivalent in Canada's capitol to jointly recommend an environmental review of the Canadian Flathead by a binational team of scientists.
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