Archive for March, 2011
This Friday, April 1st, NRRT will be setting up on the NE corner of Main and Higgins in Downtown Missoula for Fossil Fool’s Day to discuss the big-rig campaign and enjoy some delicious food! We will have baked goods for sale, as well as up-to-date information on how you can get involved and what is […]
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A really exciting piece of solidarity occurred in Portland five days ago but didn’t receive the attention it deserved. A group of Native American singers and activists gathered at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers to protest oil companies shipping Tar Sands mining equipment over Highway 12. The full article can be found […]
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Pony Up to Sue The bill introduced by Idaho republican Hartwood passed through the house a few days ago, but came under some hard scrutiny in the Senate. When questioned by Senator Elliot Werk (D-Boise) as to why he deemed the lawsuits “frivolous” when neither an Idaho judge nor the state hearing officer Hartwood replied, […]
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At about 2:30 am on Thursday morning, two residents of Missoula, MT, Carol Marsh, 69, and Ann Maechtlen, 50, sat down in the middle of Reserve St. in an attempt to halt the shipment of large, oversized loads of equipment heading to a ConocoPhillips tar sands oil refinery in Billings, MT. Marsh, a retired journalist […]
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Both megaloads are now staged at an old weigh station just south of Missoula. The second load met the first early Wednesday morning after being stuck near Lolo Hot Springs the night before. There apparently was a bit of a hitch early in the morning as the load made it way through the intersection of […]
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What’s gone wrong so far?
Regardless of what you might be reading or seeing in the papers regarding the megaload move there have been many more problems than reported. We just received an update from the great folks who have been out on the road night after night for the last month documenting, videotaping, and generally watching the load travel […]
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So, workers have been preparing Reserve St. in Missoula for the passage of the first two giant megaloads headed to Billings. The second load of the two will be moved to withing five miles of the Montana border tonight sometime after 10pm. It is assumed that sometime next week Exxon will send a test load […]
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Tags: Alberta, Conoco/Phillips, cree, exxon, Fossil Fuels, idaho, megalaods, Missoual Montana, Nez Perce, Tar Sands
