From the Friday, March 9, 2007 online edition of the Washington Post . . .

The Bush administration has objected to a proposed open-pit coal mine in Canada near the Montana border, citing the potential for irreversible environmental damage to Glacier National Park, pristine trout streams and the largest natural lake in the West.

The objection — in a Feb. 23 letter from the State Department to the provincial government of British Columbia — comes after nearly six years of demands from elected officials in Montana for federal action to stop the mine.

The State Department letter has not been made public, but news of its existence was greeted on Friday as a significant breakthrough in an environmental quarrel that has created bad blood between British Columbia and Montana.

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