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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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(November 27, 2013) Spokesman Review.</div>
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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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