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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I doubt the largest serving of humble pie will muffle out the loudest complainers. Another excuse as to why Friends of the Clearwater and thousands of <SPAN id=misspell-1>Idahoians</SPAN> oppose a the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2>mega-beasts</SPAN> coming down our small underdeveloped roads through <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-3><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">prist<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>ine</SPAN></SPAN> forest along a supply of fresh clear water is bound to morph from their imaginations.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#000000>I may be mistaken, but I think the plural for <FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face=Arial><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4>Nostradamuses</SPAN> is actually <SPAN id=misspell-5>Nortradamii</SPAN>. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></div>
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Haverstick' <bhaverstick@yahoo.com>; 'Marilyn Beckett' <marilynbeckett@gmail.com>; 'Cheryl Halverson' <basketmakeart@yahoo.com>; 'Joann Muneta' <Jmuneta@uidaho.edu>; 'Friends Of The Palouse Ranger District' <fprd09@gmail.com>; 'Wild Idaho Rising Tide' <wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com>; 'Helen Yost' <helen.yost@vandals.uidaho.edu><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, September 17, 2011 12:29 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] Hearings Denied on Pulp Mill <SPAN id=misspell-17>Megaloads</SPAN><BR></FONT><BR>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1794344526MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; RIGHT: auto">Oh, my . . . how terribly inconvenient & embarrassing for those who were just <B>so certain</B> that opposition to <SPAN id=misspell-18>megaloads</SPAN> was just about sticking it to Big Oil. There should be some big <SPAN id=misspell-19>ol</SPAN>’ servings of humble pie being eaten today, but I suspect those who should be doing the eating are already too full from far too much hubris to do so.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1794344526MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d">The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1794344526MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tom Hansen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:23 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Moscow Vision 2020<BR><B>Cc:</B> Aaron Ament; Lois Blackburn; Kathy Judson; Borg Hendrickson; Friends of the Clearwater; Fritz Knorr; Jeanne McHale; Brett Haverstick; Marilyn Beckett; Cheryl Halverson; Joann Muneta; Friends Of The Palouse Ranger District; Wild Idaho Rising Tide; Helen Yost<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Hearings Denied on Pulp Mill <SPAN id=misspell-31>Megaloads</SPAN></SPAN></div></DIV></DIV>
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<div class=yiv1794344526MsoNormal>Courtesy of today's (September 17, 2011) Spokesman-Review.</div></DIV>
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<H5 style="OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #444444; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Transportation chief gives <SPAN id=misspell-33>Weyerhaeuser</SPAN> OK</SPAN></H5>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">BOISE – Idaho’s transportation director refused Friday to allow hearings that could delay a new proposal to send <SPAN id=misspell-34>megaloads</SPAN> of equipment across scenic U.S. Highway 12 in north-central Idaho.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">Several of the loads are wide enough to block both lanes of traffic on the narrow, twisting, two-lane route.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt" class=yiv1794344526MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">The move followed extended hearings that delayed for months the plans by Imperial Oil/<SPAN id=misspell-35>ExxonMobil</SPAN> to send more than 200 giant loads of oil equipment over the route; <SPAN id=misspell-36>ExxonMobil</SPAN> instead reduced the height of many of the loads so they can travel on a freeway route instead.</SPAN></div></DIV>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">Brian <SPAN id=misspell-37>Ness</SPAN>, Idaho Transportation Department director, rejected a petition from Friends of the Clearwater, a conservation group based in Moscow, Idaho, to hold a contested-case hearing on a new proposal from Nickel Bros. and <SPAN id=misspell-39>Weyerhaeuser</SPAN> Inc. to run nine large oversize loads over Highway 12 on their way to a <SPAN id=misspell-40>Weyerhaeuser</SPAN> pulp mill in northern Alberta.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'"><SPAN id=misspell-41>Ness</SPAN> ruled that all the issues the Friends of the Clearwater raised in their petition already were addressed in the contested-case hearings over proposals from <SPAN id=misspell-43>ExxonMobil</SPAN> and <SPAN id=misspell-44>ConocoPhillips</SPAN>.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">“A third contested case hearing is not warranted. The facts and concerns raised in the petition have been fully considered in two separate hearings and resolved by hearing officers,” <SPAN id=misspell-45>Ness</SPAN> said.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">However, during the earlier hearings, when opponents raised concerns about the <SPAN id=misspell-46>ConocoPhillips</SPAN> and <SPAN id=misspell-47>ExxonMobil</SPAN> loads setting a precedent for turning the popular scenic river corridor into a <SPAN id=misspell-48>megaload</SPAN>-friendly industrial route, <SPAN id=misspell-49>ITD</SPAN> stressed that it was considering only the proposal before it – and not any precedent. The latest decision suggests otherwise.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">“The law does not require nor allow a party to re-litigate issues and claims that have already been ruled upon by the appropriate authority,” <SPAN id=misspell-50>Ness</SPAN> said in an <SPAN id=misspell-51>ITD</SPAN> press release.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">Wayne <SPAN id=misspell-52>Roznowsky</SPAN>, spokesman for <SPAN id=misspell-53>Weyerhaeuser</SPAN>, said, “We’re pleased with the decision. We obviously think it’s the right decision and are pleased to be able to proceed.”</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">He said the wood-products company was “somewhat surprised and I guess disappointed” when the petition was filed, “that what we thought is a pretty good project” could face delays. The equipment is being shipped to a <SPAN id=misspell-54>Grande</SPAN> Prairie, Alberta, pulp mill for the third phase of an upgrade to improve the 37-year-old facility’s efficiency, cut its emissions and water use, and allow it to produce green energy from biomass that will go to the Canadian power grid, enough to power 16,000 homes.“This equipment is not related to the oil sands,” <SPAN id=misspell-55>Roznowsky</SPAN> said.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">Exxon’s loads are of Korean-made oil field equipment for use in the Alberta oil sands project.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">Gary <SPAN id=misspell-56>MacFarlane</SPAN> of Friends of the Clearwater said his group’s “main concern is we think Highway 12 is inappropriate for <SPAN id=misspell-58>megaloads</SPAN>, be they headed for the tar sands in Alberta or be they a giant machine to make bubble gum. It <SPAN id=misspell-59>doesn</SPAN>’t matter. Because this is not an appropriate place.”</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">Natalie <SPAN id=misspell-60>Havlina</SPAN>, attorney for the Friends of the Clearwater, said the group could ask <SPAN id=misspell-62>Ness</SPAN> to reconsider his decision, and/or take the case to court. “My client has not decided yet what if any action it intends to take,” she said.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'"><SPAN id=misspell-63>ITD</SPAN> spokesman Adam Rush said the group has 14 days to seek reconsideration.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15.75pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'"><SPAN id=misspell-64>Havlina</SPAN> called <SPAN id=misspell-65>Ness</SPAN>’ decision “disturbing,” particularly after <SPAN id=misspell-66>ITD</SPAN>’s assurances on the <SPAN id=misspell-67>ConocoPhillips</SPAN> and <SPAN id=misspell-68>ExxonMobil</SPAN> cases that it <SPAN id=misspell-69>wasn</SPAN>’t considering any precedent for future loads. “Now they’<SPAN id=misspell-70>ve</SPAN> suddenly changed course and decided that they did set a precedent,” she said.</SPAN></div>
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