Flathead Coal Mining

Project stopped: see Bill 2
This 3D video was created to show the downstream geography from the proposed Lodgepole Open Pit Coal Mine near Fernie, British Columbia, CANADA. Glacier National Park, Montana, USA is immediately downstream from this proposed use of an uninhabited, and unspoiled valley.

This video provides its audience with a spatial reference for the state, provincial, federal, and international land use designations that have protected the ecological integrity of the transboundary flathead watershed for the past 100 years. The map intends to emphasize how this watershed, with its world class fisheries, is currently under threat from a proposed open pit coal mine located in the British Columbian headwaters of the North Fork of the Flathead River. In the United States, the North Fork of the Flathead River forms the western boundary for the Glacier National Park part of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, and has federal designation as a "Wild and Scenic River". This proposed open pit coal mine will operate in the headwaters of this wild and scenic river, an area said to contain the highest concentration of non-coastal grizzly bears in North America, on a 24/7 basis for 20 years. The Lodgepole Coal Mine, as it will be known, will be run by Cline Mining Corporation of Sudbury, Ontario. Coal produced at this mine will then be sold on the international market.

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• CLINE
• Global
• Warming
• Mercury
• Coal
• Mining
• Glacier
• National
• Park
• Montana
• British
• Columbia
• Canada
• UNESCO
• Wild
• Scenic
• River

[UNIQUENAME2007]

haha, true enough! However, I am afraid that I would never get a free moment if I tried posting updates regarding BC's latest decisions on the Flathead. As well, my intent was never to keep this updated, hopefully anyone who stumbles upon this video will do a bit more research to find out what the status of these fossil fuel extraction projects is?,,,,,

[suicunesrider]

Dude, you should update this information. It's old. The "proposed Lodgepole Open Pit Coal Mine" is no longer proposd, it's been cancelled! :D But, the Flathead Valley still needs to be protected. We need to turn it into a National Park before logging and mining destroys it! :O it's still in danger!!!!