Posted on 14/09/07
Montana accuses B.C. of breaking green pact
VANCOUVER -- Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer is accusing Premier Gordon Campbell of breaching a four-year-old pact to protect environmentally sensitive areas that straddle the border.Mr. Schweitzer, in a three-page letter sent Aug. 22, says the province's decision to allow two projects - a coal mine and a coal bed methane development - to proceed through the early stages of permission is of "continued concern" to the state and a breach of the 2003 Environmental Cooperation Arrangement between Montana and British Columbia.
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