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MEGA-LOAD OF MUSIC – TONITE!!

Mega-Load of Music [via: friendsoftheclearwater.org]

Please join us Saturday March 5th from 8pm-11pm at the Universalist Unitarian Church in Moscow for a night of music, drinks and laughter. The Universalist Church is located at 420 East 2nd Street. Admission is $5-$10 sliding scale and there will be a wine/beer cash bar and a raffle too! Musical line up is the following: Jeanne McHale 8-9pm, The Grateful Live 9-10pm, Idler’s Rest 10-11pm. All proceeds from the event will go towards continuing the fight to keep mega-loads out of the Clearwater Basin.

The Moscow Volunteer Peace Band is kicking the evening’s festivities off with a 7pm parade from Friendship Square to the Universalist Church. Please join us for this Mardi Gras style “Mega-load of Music” fundraiser.

I hope to see you there!!!
~Jeremy

MEGA -to- SUPER -back to- MEGALOADS!! [exxon edition]

Greetings fellow greensheeters!

The time has come for these loads to leave Lewiston on their journey to Billings, MT as well as destinations further North.  I will lay out how things currently stand for not one, but THREE different transport initiatives taking place in our area RIGHT AS WE SPEAK.

Mega-Loads [ConocoPhillips - Billings, MT Refinery] – 4 HUGE loads [link to pics]
[Links to news]
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_88bb55c6-36cd-11e0-8082-001cc4c002e0.html
http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_8bec7bd8-3733-11e0-9dd9-001cc4c002e0.html
http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_5d0cfac0-34d3-11e0-861a-001cc4c03286.html

‘Super-Loads’ [ExxonMobil - Kearl Tar Sands, AB, CA, via Spokane, WA]
[Links to story]
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/xom_some-megaloads-will-bypass-u-s-12-1487811.html
http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2011/02/13/rockybarker/some_megaloads_appear_be_avoiding_scenic_route_across_idaho

MEGA.v2
http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_a5368b7e-3567-11e0-8072-001cc4c03286.html

STAY TUNED, PICTURES AND MORE TO COME THIS WEEKEND!
~Jeremy

ITD Preliminary hearing = done

ITD preliminary hearing finished around 10:15 am, on Friday, for contested hearing proceedings.  This was a hearing to have all parties involved, present their arguments for a continuation on public hearings, AKA formal Contested Case Hearing through the ITD, not the Idaho Judiciary.

Here is the blog of the Spokesman-Review’s Boise bureau chief, Betsy Russell.  She posted a bunch of quotes and opinions from this morning’s meeting.

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/

I will leave you with Betsy’s post on the final “decision” of today.

The hearing has wrapped up on the ConocoPhillips megaloads and whether to allow opponents to intervene in the permit case. “I will take this matter under advisement,” said hearing officer Merlyn Clark. “I will issue a decision before Thanksgiving, it will be a written recommendation to the director, it’ll then be in the hands of the director,” he said. “I want to compliment counsel for the excellent work that you have done providing me the briefing and the factual information I need to make a decision. Thank you. We are adjourned.”
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2010/nov/19/conoco-hearing-concludes-decision-next-week/

Currently at the Port of Lewiston…

 

End View

Current view from Port of Lewiston access road

Weight of unit, not including trailer or truck

On the trailer since June, ready to roll

Approx dimensions of large ConocoPhillips mega-loads for reference

If you were to travel to the Port of Lewiston, as I did last Wednesday (November 3rd, 2010), this is what you would see.  These are the proposed mega-loads bound for Billings, MT (the red-round things), and the grey pipe structures are bound for Northern Alberta’s Kearl Oil Sands development.  The final route of travel for these industrial oil implements is awaiting a decision from Idaho Transportation Department, which recently has been put on hold by a lawsuit filed by Kamiah, ID residents/business owners, Borg Hendrickson and Linwood Laughy (their website can be found at: www.fightinggoliath.org).

Current count of Mega-Loads

4 – Coke Furnaces (red & round)
~20 – Oil Sands processing rigs (grey & boxy)

if you have any corrections to this count, please email us at: greensheetradio@gmail.com!

Idaho Supreme Court Ruling on Hwy 12 Mega-Loads

Spokesman-Review:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/nov/01/idaho-court-oks-highway-12-mega-loads/

Link to the official court document:
http://media.spokesman.com/documents/2010/11/Conoco-11-1-10.pdf

Idaho Statesman:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/11/01/1400980/apnewsbreak-idaho-court-vacates.html

Moscow-Pullman Daily News:
http://www.dnews.com/breaking-news/1455/

“Dirty Oil” documentary FREE ONLINE

A new documentary on the Canadian Tar Sands,  was a big hit at the Calgary Film Festival last month.

Dirty Oil – Babelgum’s first original feature film production. Narrated by Canadian actress and environmentalist Neve Campbell, this much anticipated feature documentary from Academy Award®-Nominated director Leslie Iwerks goes deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Northern Alberta, Canada

LINK Below!

http://www.babelgum.com/dirtyoil

Before-After image of a small area of the Canadian Tar Sands from National Geographic