Articles with the Tag: Water rights
ST. IGNATIUS — Attorney Lawrence Kogan will be the keynote speaker on upcoming congressional action regarding the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact. He and other authorities will appear Tuesday, Aug.11, from 6-9 p.m. at the Altitude Bar in St. Ignatius, Montana. A no-host bar will b...
ST. IGNATIUS – The Flathead Indian Irrigation Project began implementing water shut offs last week and conditions are only expected to get worse in the coming months, according to a report issued by Bureau of Indian Affairs Project Manager Pete Plant. “FIIP expects the lack of precipitat...
POLSON — In a conference hearing on Tuesday, attorneys for the Flathead Joint Board of Control told Lake County District Court Judge James Manley that the board intends to file for an injunction to halt ongoing implementation of parts of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact passed earlier...
ST. IGNATIUS – There were only a handful of irrigators on hand for the Bureau of Indian Affairs bi-annual meeting for the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project and it appears a communication disconnect between the BIA and Flathead Joint Board of Control might be to blame. The May 5 meeting was an...
ST. IGNATIUS — Governor Steve Bullock signed a bill March 24 that gives final state approval for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact, but the battle over the document continued as a handful of Flathead Joint Board of Control Irrigation Commissioners filed a lawsuit saying the meth...
The Water Compact and methamphetamine abuse cropped up many times at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes quarterly meeting on April 3. CSKT attorney Rhonda Swaney updated the membership on the progress of the Water Compact. It has passed through the Montana Senate and is now in the Montana House o...
ST. IGNATIUS — Flathead Joint Board of Control members tabled a resolution of non-support for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact on Dec. 23, because commissioners could not agree on final language for the document. The board agreed to finalize the language later in the week. Co...
RONAN – A re-evaluation of protected bull trout habitat, litigation, and ongoing negotiations of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact will have a significant impact on the operation of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project in the next year, Bureau of Indian Affairs officials said Nov. 19...
POLSON – State, federal, and tribal leaders seemed to agree on a critical legal aspect of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact at a Nov. 5 negotiating session, although they were still slightly at odds over certain water management priorities. The negotiating session is one of th...
ST. IGNATIUS – A meeting with the staff of Governor Steve Bullock was seen as a possible in-road to inserting three major concerns some irrigators want put into the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact, but irrigation commissioners who returned from the talk said no progress was made...
