This story is gaining the attention of a wider audience, thanks to the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, this past weekend. While this story has been picked up by the major newswires for a few months now, these newest features come at an opportune time.
Link to them both at Northern Rockies Rising Tide, where you can also find a long list of news up to this point! Also FightingGoliath has more links, both are regional blogs, run by concerned citizens, such as ourselves.
The most recent addition to the Port of Lewiston’s growing stockpile of Tar Sands processing equipment.
Filmed by James Bradford (THANK YOU!), via: friendsoftheclearwater.org
Jane O’ Holly Productions made this short (~8 min) documentary on the issue, further substantiating the claims that this action will turn the Highway 12 corridor into a permanent shipping route for Big Oil, and the Tar Sands!
via: Jane O’ Holly Productions
Here are a few visuals of the scale of the “Mega Loads,” slated to traverse through the Idaho Panhandle, Rockies, and NW Montana, via Wild and Scenic US Highway 12. Their final destinations will be to Northern Alberta’s Kearl Oil Sands project.
(MORE TO COME…STAY TUNED!)
These are 4, of the proposed 200+ mega loads (click for full & details)
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