Closure order published Sept. 18 for section through the Lochsa-Clearwater Wild and Scenic River corridor-
There was a similar headline about a month ago. Then Omega-Morgan transport, aided by a permit from Idaho Department of Transportation and law enforcement, bullied their way through the corridor. The Forest Service backed down in the face of this […]
Continue Reading →Federal judge blocks megaloads from Clearwater-Lochsa Wild and Scenic corridor
BOISE — A federal judge this morning temporarily blocked additional megaload shipments through the Clearwater National Forest, America’s first Wild and Scenic River corridor and the homeland of the Nez Perce people.
Federal Judge B. Lynn Winmill’s injunction was issued as part of a lawsuit […]
Continue Reading →Forest Service failed to enforce their regulations on megaloads-
News release-
BOISE — Idaho Rivers United and the Nez Perce Tribe filed a joint lawsuit in federal court in Boise late this afternoon in order to stop the movement of megaloads along U.S. Highway 12 through tribal lands and the Clearwater-Lochsa Wild and Scenic River […]
Continue Reading →Idaho State Police hold up traffic to get megaload ahead of protesters-
U.S. Highway 12, Idaho. “Fighing Goliath” is an organization of local Highway 12 citizens trying to protect their property, lives, and beautiful outdoors from “Corporate Canada” and its enablers in Idaho government.
They have a blog detailing what […]
Continue Reading →What do you do when transport company is breaking federal law with state protection to haul giant machinery through Idaho to tar sands hell?
It seems as though the Idaho and Montana state governments are […]
Continue Reading →Tribal leaders shoved aside by police leading the megaloads upriver-
It was thought the megaloads issue on U.S Highway 12 across north central Idaho was finally settled by Federal Judge Lynn Winmill. Early this year he wrote a decision that the U.S. […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Credit to two local citizens who have taken on the world’s most profitable corporation, oil octopus Exxon-Mobil and others-
Ah, some credit to two average folks fighting the international oil companies to try to save the economy, scenery, fish and wildlife of the area around U.S. Highway 12.
Idaho megaload foes win Dalton […]
Continue Reading →Folks continue to have plenty to say-
Here is the story on the coming third week of testimony, from the Spokesman-Review.
It seems to me that local folks willing to testify are mostly unhappy. Here is a detailed story about past testimony in […]
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