News and reports on potential threats to Glacier National Park and the Flathead River Basin from coal mining in the British Columbian headwaters basin of the North Fork Flathead River.

Fording Coal LTD May Mine North Fork. 17 January 1997. Canada's largest coal company is examining the value of coal licenses in the North Fork.

B.C. Politics, Coal Mine Threaten North Fork. 11 December 1997, Hungry Horse News. Political analysis by Steve Thompson.

Flathead River International Study

The Cabin Creek Coal Mine issue was referred to the International Joint Commission, the bi-national commission, established by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, that addresses Canadian-American transboundary water quality issues. Thus far, I've digitized these sections of the study's reports and appendices.

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