From the Wednesday, June 4, 2008 online edition of the Globe & Mail . . .

Several leading environmental groups in the U.S. and Canada have written to the United Nations asking that proposed energy developments along British Columbia’s Flathead River be investigated as threats to a World Heritage Site.

In a letter sent yesterday, the organizations state that Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which links globally significant national parks in Alberta and Montana, be placed on the UN’s World Heritage in Danger list.

“There is substantial danger that the existing statutory and regulatory framework will fail to adequately protect Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and its surrounding lands from adverse impacts caused by mining and CBM [coal bed methane] development in the headwaters of the Flathead River,” the groups state in a letter to Francesco Bandarin, director of the UN’s World Heritage Centre.

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