Posts Tagged ‘heavy haul’
Idaho Hearing Officer may side with ConocoPhillips but other Tar Sands companies are on the run
The ruling from Idaho state hearing officer Merlyn Clark suggests the shipments be approved. No final decision has been made yet, however, but we all expect Ness, Director of ITD, to make his final decision after the fourteen day reconsideration period. Continuing legal avenues are being pursued by opponents in Idaho, but the decision is […]
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Tags: connoco/phillips, ExxonMobile, heavy haul, Idaho Shipments
As reported on TradingMarkets.com, the company hired to ship giant loads of mining equipment overland from the Port of Lewiston, ID to the oil fields of Alberta has, unsurprisingly, not mentioned that it dumped a 300,000 pound piece of equipment overboard while hauling it through Indiana earlier this year. The accident, which occurred on July […]
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Tags: connoco/phillips, heavy haul, Mammoet
The inaugural International Tar Sands Resistance Summit (ITSRS) wrapped up near Missoula last Monday, November 22, with a packed house at the Missoula City Council meeting. As the first true snowstorm of the season coated the street outside, inside the council was voting unanimously to double the cost of hauling oversize loads through the city […]
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Tags: colonialism, heavy haul, Idaho Shipments, indigenous rights, keystone, Northern Rockies, Oil, oil sands, pipelines, Rising Tide, Tar Sands
We’re On Tour!
Please join Northern Rockies Rising Tide for a presentation about resistance in the northwest against the Tar Sands. University of Oregon – Eugene, OR – October 6th @ 6pm Red & Black Cafe – Portland, OR – October 12th @ 7pm Media Island – Olympia, WA – October 14th @ 6pm University of Idaho College […]
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Tags: heavy haul, idaho, missoula, Montana, oil sands, Tar Sands
It has been said here before, with much confidence, that to allow the Kearl Module Transport Project to proceed will open a Pandora’s Box of industrialization in the inland Northwest. In particular, the establishment of an ongoing culture of supplying equipment to the Tar Sands of Alberta by means of high-wide truck transport through the […]
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Tags: Alberta, ExxonMobile, heavy haul, Montana, Oil, shipments, Tar Sands
ConocoPhillips joins the parade Four oversize loads sit waiting on trailers at Idaho’s Port of Lewiston, poised and ready to roll across the northern Rockies, save only for the final pieces of red tape. Even as executives from Exxon and Montana Department of Transportation continue to claim that the scenic routes over Lolo and Rogers […]
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Tags: ExxonMobile, First Nations, heavy haul, idaho, missoula, Montana, MTDoT, Oil, oil sands, shipments, solidarity, Tar Sands, trucks
Monday, May 10th Missoula City Council Chambers (140 W. Pine St) 7pm So, some of you have already received the email, but this is important! This Monday, May 10 (tomorrow), the Missoula City Council will make a decision concerning the resolution that will act as their public comment to the Montana Department of Transportation regarding […]
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Tags: ExxonMobile, heavy haul, Mammoet, missoula, Montana, MTDoT, oil sands, shipments, Tar Sands, trucks
(reposted from 4&20 Blackbirds) (we hope they’re not angry) By JC It seems that in lieu of any rational economic development proposals from Governor Brian Schweitzer (D-Imperial/Exxon) to mitigate the impacts of the collapse of the housing construction (timber) industry and Stone Container, it is best to lay down and let another multinational corporation walk […]
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Tags: Alberta, Canada, Climate Change, ExxonMobile, heavy haul, Mammoet, Mining, Montana, MTDoT, Oil, oil sands, shipments, shipping, Tar Sands, trucks
Video of Jim Hepburn’s public comments Video of Barbara Hall’s public comments Video of Summer Nelson’s public comments Hundreds of residents of western Montana packed the bleachers of Meadow Hill Middle School gymnasium on a rainy Thursday evening in Missoula this week, but the reason for such turnout was hardly a game. Ostensibly a public […]
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Tags: Climate Change, Deforestation, ExxonMobile, heavy haul, idaho, lochsa, missoula, Montana, MTDoT, oil sands, shipments, Tar Sands, trucks
So, you’ve heard about the giant trucks that are rolling through western Montana this fall and winter headed for the Alberta Tar Sands, but you want to know what, exactly, is going on? Then please join us for A Tar Sands Shipments Open House 6:30-7:30pm Tuesday, April 27th University of Montana Campus Third Floor of […]
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Tags: heavy haul, MTDoT, shipments, Tar Sands
