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      Don't fret, Mr. Hansen - they will get through eventually.<br>
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      Paul<br>
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      On 11/27/2013 09:14 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br>
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        <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of today's
          (November 27, 2013) Spokesman Review.</div>
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          <h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both;
            background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
            -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.2; font-size:
            28px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17,
            17);">Oregon megaload journey delayed until Sunday</h1>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The shipment weighing 901,000
              pounds remained at the Port of Umatilla on Tuesday, two
              days after it was scheduled to move.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We weren’t in any huge rush,”
              she said.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The trip to Alberta, Canada, is
              expected to take 20 days, six in Eastern Oregon. It then
              goes to Idaho and Montana.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Megaloads are getting bigger, so
              the department is reassessing its process for public
              involvement, regional manager Monte Grove said.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p>
          <p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
              style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
              rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p>
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            <div>Tom Hansen</div>
            <div>Moscow, Idaho</div>
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            <div>"<span style="font-size: medium;
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                128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are
                telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium;
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            <span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color:
              rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);
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              0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128,
              180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as
              you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium;
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            <span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color:
              rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);
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              0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128,
              180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the
              hill."</span></div>
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                rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);
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                128, 180, 0.230469);"><br>
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                0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,
                128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br>
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