From the Tuesday, June 3, 2008 online edition of canada.com . . .

A long-simmering sore point in Canada-U.S. relations – a proposed open-pit coal mine in a pristine B.C. valley – is irritating Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who wants to be the next U.S. president.

“Barack Obama supports efforts by Senator Max Baucus and Senator Jon Tester as well as Gov. Brian Schweitzer to stop the Cline mine,” Obama campaign official Matt Chandler wrote last week in an e-mail to Will Hammerquist of the U.S. National Parks Conservation Association.

“The Flathead River and Glacier National Park are treasures that should be conserved for future generations.”

Environmentalists say the mine could pollute the north fork of the Flathead River, which flows from B.C. into Montana and forms the western boundary of Glacier National Park.

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