The Conservation Alliance

A Vancouver mining exploration company claims it has found significant gold desposits in the Flathead River Valley, on a ridge just 10 miles from Glacier National Park. The find heightens the concerns of Sierra Club BC and other conservation groups that industrial development will proceed in the unprotected Flathead River Valley--the missing piece of Waterton Glacier International Peace Park. Read the New York Times story. Last week, after Max announced it had found significant gold deposits, two Senators from Montana asked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to take action to stop the gold exploration and request that Canada work with them to establish permanent protection for the Canadian Flathead.The Flathead, which adjoins the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and World Heritage Site, is under threat from proposals for mountain-top removal coal mining, gold and phosphate mining and coalbed methane drilling. Sierra Club BC, Wildsight... Read More