Articles with the Tag: Water Compact
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Tribal Council began the New Year by selecting officers to serve for the next two years. Standing Chairman Vernon Finley was selected to serve for another term as Chair. He had just completed a sp...
ST. IGNATIUS – The Flathead Joint Board of Control discussed the possibility of appointing a representative for the irrigators to the Compact Implementation Technical Team (CITT) at the last regular board meeting. After the Montana Legislature ratified the CSKT Compact earlier this year, the p...
RONAN – The Flathead Joint Board of Control will appeal a federal lawsuit to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to regain local control of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project. The board’s attorneys said Aug. 25 that they will also try to work out an agreement outside of the...
News from the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation HELENA — After becoming state law on April 24, 2015, the first steps toward implementation of the water rights compact between the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the State of Montana and the United States are under way.&n...
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...
HELENA – In a complaint that reads almost like a point-counterpoint summary to documents filed in a grievance currently under review, two people in Gallatin County have asked the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices to determine whether or not the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes broke st...
ST. IGNATIUS – Irrigation commissioners said last week that a lack of drought management plan and adequate staffing at the Bureau of Indian Affairs is exacerbating water delivery to Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators. According to commissioners, individual ditchriders appear to be c...
HELENA – A public relations firm hired by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to sway public opinion about a tribal water compact did help form a grassroots lobbying group related to the compact, but the expenditures the tribal government made to do so were exempted from lobbying reports becaus...
HELENA – The fired up rhetoric that reached a din during the Montana Legislature has died down somewhat since the passage of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Compact, but state and tribal workers who did the behind-the-scenes grunt work for the document are now facing another monumental task:...
PABLO — Although the official signing of the passage of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ water compact took place in Helena, on Thursday the CSKT tribal council hosted Governor Steve Bullock and Senator Chas Vincent for a ceremonial signing. “While we did have to sign it duri...
