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Imperial Oil announces what amounts to abandonment of Highway 12 for megaloads!

On August 11, 2011 By

Montana judge’s ruling saves Lochsa River and local Idaho and Montana residents-

Imperial Oil, Canadian spawn of ExxonMobil has announced they are going to try to break down the size of their tar sands-bound megaloads so that they won’t have to use narrow, winding, scenic U.S. Highway 12 through North Central Idaho and then […]

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Oil pipeline ruptures. Massive pollution of Yellowstone River

On July 3, 2011 By

ExxonMobil pipeline under the Yellowstone River releases 30,000 – 50,000 gallons of crude into world famous river-

It’s another one of those things they claimed was too unlikely to worry about. Now there is a large oil slick drifting down the Yellowstone River toward the Missouri, ruining riverside property, and polluting not just the river […]

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Idaho issues permits for chopped down megaloads (and more, 6-19 & 20)

On June 18, 2011 By

It turns out the size of these monster loads of oil equipment can be reduced-

We kept hearing that they had to come over Highway 12 and they were “X” big, . . . end of discussion. That wasn’t so. Permits have now been issued for smaller, giant loads. However, will this mean twice as […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey