Flathead Valley in BC Needs Your Help
Watch Feature Story on Global BC
Last week, the very popular News Hour with Tony Parsons brought their powerful camera to the distant and troubled Flathead Valley. This feature story exposed B.C. viewers to the latest in this cross-border tale of grizzly bears and risky business.
Watch the Global TV News Hour segment. Click on any link. One should work on your computer.
Tell Premier Gordon Campbell and B.C. Intergovernmental Relations Minister John van Dongen what you thought of the Global program.
E-mail them: premier@gov.bc.ca and john.vandongen@gov.bc.ca
What Premier Campbell and Minister van Dongen should know about the Flathead…
- BIOLOGICAL BOUNTY: The greatest density of grizzly bears in the interior of North America survives in the Flathead Valley. The greatest variety of vascular plants in Canada grows in the Flathead Valley.
- CLIMATE CHANGE: The Flathead Valley is a crucial corridor for species moving up and down the Rocky Mountains – ever more important as species move northward and up mountains in response to global warming.
- INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION: Part of the Flathead Valley should be a national park to fill in the missing piece of the world famous Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. B.C. should join with Alberta and Montana and contribute its equally valuable land to this World Heritage Site.
- PRISTINE WATER QUALITY: The Flathead River is an international benchmark of pure water quality due to the undeveloped and wild nature of the valley.
- RISKY BUSINESS: The proposed coal and coal bed methane operations near the headwaters of the Flathead River pose an unreasonable, ongoing risk to one of British Columbia’s most cherished valleys and a neighbouring United Nations protected area and World Heritage Site. The B.C. government should immediately abandon the proposed coal and methane extraction operations in this exceedingly sensitive area.
Please visit www.flathead.ca for more information.
