{"id":228106,"date":"2010-01-25T08:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2010-01-25T08:11:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:11:35","slug":"u-n-seeks-mining-moratorium-in-flathead-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/228106","title":{"rendered":"U.N. seeks mining moratorium in Flathead Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/travel\/seeks+Flathead+Valley+mining+moratorium\/2470208\/story.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a123.g.akamai.net\/f\/123\/12465\/1d\/www.vancouversun.com\/travel\/seeks+Flathead+Valley+mining+moratorium\/2470208\/1850880.bin\" width=\"452\" align=\"left\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/01\/22\/21\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/contributor\/united.nations\">U.N.<\/a> report has recommended a moratorium on mining in the Flathead Valley of southeast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/British_Columbia_mainland_coastal_forests\">British Columbia<\/a>, suggesting that any activity in the valley could cause environmental stress on a neighboring U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, world heritage site.<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive conservation and wildlife management plan should be developed for the valley, which sits by the Canadian-U.S. border and adjoins the transnational Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The 457,614-hectare park stretches across the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains into Montana and gained UNESCO protection in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. report, to be officially presented in July, suggests that any mining in British Columbia&#8217;s Flathead Valley would spill over into the parks, according to Stephen Morris, chief of international affairs for the U.S. National Park Service, who received a copy of the report.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Locke, conservation vice president of the Wild Foundation based in Colorado, said he is not surprised that &#8220;international experts would draw the same conclusion as the majority of East Kootenay residents, namely that the beautiful Flathead Valley with its world-class ecological values is no place for mining or oil and gas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conservationists are pushing to fold 45,000 hectares of the Flathead River into Waterton Park. An additional 300,000 hectares west of the river would be declared a wildlife management area. Mining or oil and gas extraction would be allowed in such an area but not in the Flathead Valley itself (Larry Pynn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/travel\/seeks+Flathead+Valley+mining+moratorium\/2470208\/story.html\" ><em>Vancouver Sun<\/em><\/a>, Jan. 22). <strong>&#8211; PV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3073&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3073\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: A U.N. report has recommended a moratorium on mining in the Flathead Valley of southeast British Columbia, suggesting that any activity in the valley could cause environmental stress on a neighboring U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, world heritage site. A comprehensive conservation and wildlife management plan should be developed for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}