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NEWS

WORDS
••••
of the Week

Glacier National
AN INDEX OF Park superin-
RECENT tendent Jef
NEWSMAKERS
Mow speaks
during a White-
ish Chamber
NEW FLIGHTS
of Commerce
To Portland, Ore., begin this lunch on Feb.
summer from Glacier Park 6. GREG LINDSTROM |
FLATHEAD BEACON
International Airport, Alaska
Airlines announced last
week. The lights will operate
June 9 through Aug. 23.

GOLDEN

American Olympic ice
dancers Meryl Davis and
Charlie White earned gold for
the United States in Sochi,
bringing the U.S. gold total to
ive as of Feb. 17.

TRIGGERED

A massive avalanche in the
Canyon Creek drainage
near Whiteish Mountain
Resort this weekend, by
a snowmobiler. The slide
partially buried four people,
who made it out OK.
(STORY, PAGE 24)
As More Oil Rides the Rails,

SHOCKED
BNSF Prepares For the Worst

Kalispell lawmaker and
Montana Highway Patrol
Capt. Steve Lavin’s reaction
to a Lincoln County judge’s Glacier National Park chief says there the end of 2014. According to BNSF, the
ruling that the state’s
24/7 Sobriety program is could be ‘severe consequences’ if an oil train railroad operates one crude oil train every
unconstitutional. day through the Flathead Valley to rein-
(STORY, PAGE 10)
were to derail along the Middle Fork
eries in Washington and Oregon. Howev-
er, a recent rash of accidents has brought
scrutiny to the practice.
DROUGHT
Now, the railroad company is prepar- By JUSTIN FRANZ of the Beacon
Oil trains have become a common
ing a detailed hazardous materials re- sight in West Glacier and the Flathead
Ended with a U.S. bronze
medal in Sochi in the two- sponse plan if an oil train were to derail WEST GLACIER – Less than a mile
Valley, due in large part to the oil boom
man bobsled event, in which near Glacier Park. According to spokes- from Glacier National Park Superinten- in North Dakota and Eastern Montana.
the country had gone without person Matt Jones, the plan will be avail-
dent Jef Mow’s oice is one of America’s Recently, BNSF CEO Matt Rose said his
a medal for 62 years.
fastest growing pipelines for Bakken 32,000-mile railroad was projected to
See Oil PAGE 24
crude oil: BNSF Railway.
haul 1 million barrels of oil every day by

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