This week, as the World Heritage Committee gets set to release its report on the Flathead River Valley, Sierra Club BC and partners are calling attention to impending plans for clear-cut logging, quarrying and other threats to this lush valley. "We're alarmed that it's business as usual in the Flathead, with the exception of large-scale mining and energy development," said Sierra Club BC spokesperson Sarah Cox. Read our press release.These threats are pressing. A B.C. company is poised to clear-cut log in the Flathead this summer. Tembec plans to remove almost 500,000 cubic metres of timber along the river in the upper Flathead and in the proposed national park expansion area in the lower Flathead. At the same time, the B.C. government has granted a permit to another company to mine 20,000 tonnes of Flathead rock, without environmental oversight, near the Waterton-Glacier World Heritage Site. At the regional scale, two... Read More