The lead story in the Thursday, September 1, 2005 online edition of the Missoulian . . .
Montana's governor and the premier of British Columbia have finally made a date to discuss transboundary environmental issues, even as a whole host of industrial development proposals are surfacing north of Glacier National Park.
"They're meeting in Victoria on Sept. 6," said Hal Harper, chief policy adviser to Gov. Brian Schweitzer. "I'm sure they'll find they have a lot to talk about."
Things such as coal mines and gold mines, oil wells and gas wells, enough heavy industry to fill Canada's Flathead River Valley from bottom to top.
Several months ago, when Schweitzer started pursuing a meeting with Premier Gordon Campbell, the governor thought they might talk about a single exploratory coal mine in the headwaters of the North Fork Flathead River. The general area of the mine, in southeast British Columbia, has been a bone of contention between the two countries for decades, ever since coal mining was first proposed there in the late 1970s.
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