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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (50484)	5/25/2004 11:03:48 PM
From: Toby Zidle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

"coal mining is clean." You can say that, but environmentalists don't buy that. It didn't take much googling of recent news to find a current example of objections to a development in Canada, just north of the Montana border. montanaforum.com In fact... The international controversy over Canadian coal first surfaced back in the late 1970s, when the Sage Creek Coal company proposed open-pit strip mining about five miles from Glacier’s northwest boundary. At the time, Bob Brown was a member of the Montana Senate. “It was right on the heels of the Arab oil embargo,” Brown remembers. “There was real push for developing some energy independence.” To that end, he said, several projects were developed in the United States and Canada. But when Sage Creek Coal announced it wanted to dig high-grade coal on the border, “there was a huge concern about water quality in Montana,” Brown said. There have been so many environmental challenges to mining projects in the past 20 years that there's an entire legal sub-profession just hanging around for their turn to get rich on lawsuits. Every western capital city in the U.S. is well represented by these environmental specialists.