From the Friday, July 8, 2005 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
After more than 20 years of cross-border wrangling about coal development in the Canadian Flathead, Gov. Brian Schweitzer thinks it's time to sit down and talk.
Schweitzer, the featured speaker at the Flathead Coalition's annual meeting Wednesday in Kalispell, said he wants to meet with British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell.
He said he thinks a face-to-face meeting is the best way to resolve some of the concerns about potential mining activities in the area just north of the border, where the headwaters of the North Fork are located.
"We in Montana have been discussing what they in Canada are doing in that area since 1982," Schweitzer said. During that time, "five governors have been involved, but to my knowledge there has never been a face-to-face meeting between the governor and the premier."
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