Articles with the Tag: Water Compact
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...
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...
On the last day of the 64th Montana Legislature, leaders in both houses lauded compromises made on the budget and other major pieces of legislation, even though the final measure died in the House after a five-day political standoff. “Montanans should be proud,” Democratic Gov. Steve Bul...
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...
HELENA – Governor Steve Bullock promised to sign the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact last week after a days-long intense back and forth between Democrats and Republican leadership in bringing the legislation to the floor of the Montana House of Representatives, where it prevailed with by...
Montana Speaker of the House Austin Knudsen quashed an effort by House Democrats to blast the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact bill to the floor of the statehouse on Monday, after the bill received an adverse committee report that would have prevented it from advancing. House Democrats...
HELENA – State officials say they intend to spend the summer re-writing some rules for legislative lobbying, after a complaint was filed April 3 against agencies working for passage of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact. The complaint, filed by Flathead County Republican...
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...
RONAN — The water slipping through the gates of a dilapidated, decades old, rickety irrigation headwork on the Pablo Feeder Canal on North Crow Creek drifts by with a quiet gurgle, and to the naked eye it might be hard to distinguish the infinitesimal differences in day-to-day water level, but to the h...
HELENA – A bill that would have appropriated $5 million for the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation office to take on the cases of privately held state-based water rights if the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Water Compact does not pass is likely dead. House ...
