[Vision2020] And yet another delay . . .

[Paul Rumelhart]

Don't fret, Mr. Hansen - they will get through eventually.

Paul

On 11/27/2013 09:14 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:
> Courtesy of today's (November 27, 2013) Spokesman Review.
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>   Oregon megaload journey delayed until Sunday
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> PORTLAND -- The start of a megaload shipment of oil refinery equipment 
> through Eastern Oregon has been put off until Sunday, and objections 
> have been raised in Eastern Oregon that the state didn't do enough to 
> notify tribal and local government officials.
>
> The shipment has also drawn protests from environmentalists gathered 
> Sunday and Monday at the Port of Umatilla. They want to call attention 
> to the global warming repercussions that could come from development 
> of oil from the tar sands in western Canada.
>
> The shipment weighing 901,000 pounds remained at the Port of Umatilla 
> on Tuesday, two days after it was scheduled to move.
>
> Spokeswoman Holly Zander for Omega Morgan, the Hillsboro company 
> handling the move, said it took longer than expected to load and 
> secure the shipment. The company hadn't planned to move on the 
> Thanksgiving weekend in any case, she said, so the trip through 
> Eastern Oregon is now expected to start Sunday night.
>
> "We weren't in any huge rush," she said.
>
> The trip to Alberta, Canada, is expected to take 20 days, six in 
> Eastern Oregon. It then goes to Idaho and Montana.
>
> In Eastern Oregon, objections to the way the shipment was approved 
> were raised at a meeting of a state Department of Transportation 
> advisory panel on Monday, the Ontario Argus Observer reported.
>
> Kayla Godowa of the Warm Springs tribe told the Southeast Area 
> Commission on Transportation her tribe hadn't been consulted about the 
> move, which will go through a forest conservation area it owns near 
> Prairie City, east of John Day.
>
> The city manager of Vale, Lynn Findley, said there's concern about a 
> 90-degree turn the 380-foot-long transport has to make in that city, 
> and Wes Allison of the Nyssa Road Assessment District said he's 
> worried about the impact of the move on a road and its bridges 
> and culverts.
>
> Megaloads are getting bigger, so the department is reassessing its 
> process for public involvement, regional manager Monte Grove said.
>
> The agency takes up to 10 days to process a megaload application, said 
> spokesman Tom Strandberg, and in this case he sent out a news release 
> and notified the Umatilla tribe in northeastern Oregon.
>
> Six members of the Umatilla tribe also objecting to a lack of 
> notification joined environmentalists at the port on Monday, the East 
> Oregonian newspaper reported.
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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