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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>First oversized load coming through tonight<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>No date set for larger load; Mammoet given five days to start<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>By Brandon Macz Daily News Staff Writer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Posted on: <b>Friday, July 15, 2011</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=storybody style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> will ship the smaller of two oversized loads through Moscow tonight under permits reissued by the <b>Idaho Transportation Department</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=storybody style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>ITD reissued permits to transport two oversized loads of oil refinery equipment along U.S. Highway 95 and Interstate 90 on Wednesday with a five-day window that starts today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=storybody style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>"Our plan is to begin moving the first of the two initial modules on Friday night," Pius Rolheiser, Imperial Oil spokesman, said. "The second one, the timing has yet to be determined."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=storybody style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The Idaho State Police</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> weighed both loads Thursday, and the smaller shipment is slated to <b>leave the Port of Lewiston at 10 p.m.</b> today with two ISP escorts, two pilot cars and three flagging crews. Its first scheduled stop will be at the Latah/Benewah county line followed by a stop three miles east of Coeur d'Alene before connecting to I-90.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=storybody style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Capt. Lonnie Richardson of ISP Region 2 in Lewiston said his department will be briefed at 8 p.m.</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> today prior to escorting the shipment, which is not required under the permit. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=storybody style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Because the shipment is 14 feet wide, it could also be transported in the daytime, but <b>Rolheiser said the company wants to maintain the same protocol for both loads, which means it would use ISP escorts and travel between 10 p.m. and 5:30 a.m</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OK, so I know caring about the megaloads moving through Moscow makes me a commie subversivo or something stupid like that to some, but . . . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>What does that make the people who think we can “trust” ITD, Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil, or even the ISP to be honest? Idiots? Morons? Sell-outs? Corporate shills lacking even a modicum of ethics?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>For those who don’t know, the baby mega-load apparently rolled through Moscow at approx. 10 PM last night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Which means Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil lied when it said, “the company wants to maintain the same protocol for both loads.” It kept the ISP “escorts” but ditched the time limitations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>News Flash: if they are willing to lie about the little stuff, they’ll have not a concern in the world in lying about the Big Stuff. Maybe I’m the only one, but I was genuinely shocked by the dishonesty surrounding the baby megaload’s transit through Moscow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It also means that the ISP -- perhaps taking a page from the “orderly & law-abiding protestors are scary” book used by Moscow’s own Parks & Rec “Director” Dwight Curtis took – apparently wasn’t quite accurate in announcing that the ISP briefing was at 8 PM last night before the scheduled 10 PM departure with ISP escorts. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that there’s no way in heck that time line was truthful when the load hit Moscow at 10 PM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Reportedly, the baby megaload didn’t even pause at its “scheduled” stop at the county line in spite of the welcome mat Walter Steed & his toadies positively wet themselves (and likely violated Idaho Public Meeting Law in the process) rolling out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Of course, Steed’s whole feel good faux resolution was nothing more than insulting to begin with. Only the uninformed – which definitely shouldn’t have been voting Council members – were unaware of the fact that the megaloads don’t purchase fuel locally. Duh.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>And as for utilizing Moscow motels?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Perhaps in Walter’s World, “knocking off for the day” after two hours’ work makes sense to patronize Moscow motels, but that’s <b>not</b> the real world, as the baby mega-load’s transport last night proved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Let me rephrase that. There <b>is</b> a profession – perhaps the world’s oldest -- that utilizes motel rooms for a couple of hours’ work. Given Steed’s faux resolution, one can’t help but wonder about the source of his . . . confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I went out (and dragged my dh – who deserves a gold star – along with me) last night because I was curious to see things for myself to form my own opinion based of what I saw with my own eyes. I knew it was just a baby mega-load, but since they are keeping the transit of the real mega-load Top Secret, it was the best I could do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’m left wondering why, if the whole thing is as innocuous as the now <b>proven</b> liars want us to believe, they are being so secretive???<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’m also <b>extremely</b> concerned about the apparent lack of communication with local law enforcement (MPD). I tried to chat with two of Moscow’s “finest” I saw out & about strolling around downtown last night, and they said they didn’t know anything. Really? If that’s the case, we all should be very concerned. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Frankly, I was quite taken aback by their behavior. I am a law abiding & tax paying citizen who has always previously felt comfortable chatting with truly Moscow’s finest for the 2+ decades I’ve lived here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The two last night? Not so much. In fact, they were positively rude . . . I was literally talking to their backs before my less-than-10-second question was even out of my mouth. And, no – they weren’t in a hurry to respond to a call because I watched them leisurely lumber down the block without a care in the world. I’m sorry to say I now have a better understanding of the comments I’ve been hearing in recent years that MPD seems to have developed an unfriendly attitude towards normal people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>~ Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>