<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">With thanks to Borg Hendrickson for providing this article.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Oregonian at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2013/12/police_arrest_16_as_protesters.html#incart_river">http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2013/12/police_arrest_16_as_protesters.html#incart_river</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 style="font-family: prelo-slab, serif; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); margin: 0px -240px 20px 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 42px; line-height: 45px; text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 1px 0px 1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Police arrest 16 as protesters delay tar-sands megaload near John Day</h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police arrested 16 protesters late Monday as activists locked themselves to disabled vehicles in front of a tar-sands megaload near John Day, delaying the shipment’s passage.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Climate justice groups stopped the movement of a controversial shipment of equipment bound for the</span><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/12/the_sands_of_canada_oil_supply.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"> Alberta tar sands</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">,” said a news release issued at 1:49 a.m. Tuesday by</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://portlandrisingtide.org/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Portland Rising Tide</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">, an activists’ network. “Police responded and arrested 16 at the two blockade sites, using 'pain compliance' to extract them.”</span></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The blockade is the second pulled off by activists slowing the 901,000-pound rig as it heads for Alberta via Oregon and Idaho. The load was first blocked Dec. 1, when two men locked themselves to the truck and had to be extracted by police, which took so long the shipment canceled its nightly move.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This time the megaload was able to proceed, said Holly Zander, a spokeswoman for <a href="http://www.omegamorgan.com/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Omega Morgan</a>, the trucking company.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"After the protesters were removed from the road we proceeded with travel and are about 30 miles east of John Day now," Zander said in a Tuesday morning email. She expects the rig and its convoy to travel about 35 miles Tuesday night.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Protesters demonstrated at Omega Morgan’s Hillsboro headquarters last week. They say extraction of petroleum products from Alberta’s tar sands is environmentally destructive, hastening global climate change.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zander says Omega Morgan is just doing its job hauling giant cargo, a routine project for the company that <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2013/01/omega_morgan_boosts_credential.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">moved the Sellwood Bridge platform </a>and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bVhC_MnqzE" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">helped replace the Skagit River Bridge</a>.<br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The megaload is hauling <a href="http://www.gereports.com/gathering-steam/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">an evaporator </a>manufactured in Portland to the Athabasca oil fields north of Edmonton. Omega Morgan says the shipment is the first of three for <a href="http://www.gereports.com/mixing-oil-and-water/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">General Electric Co.</a>, which owns the equipment.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------</p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Protesters Rod Lyman and Kathy Leathers, both of Bellingham, Wash., hold up signs on Highway 395 on Dec. 2 as the megaload slowly passes by in Hermiston, Ore<i>gon.</i></span></p><p><img src="cid:D000CF40-790B-4736-B569-1F884A9A80D8" alt="13950516-mmmain.jpg" id="D000CF40-790B-4736-B569-1F884A9A80D8" width="620" height="413"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 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; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 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><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>