<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div>Courtesy of KHQ at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/24275617/idaho-issues-permit-for-megaload-to-cross-state">http://www.khq.com/story/24275617/idaho-issues-permit-for-megaload-to-cross-state</a></div><div> </div><div>----------------------------------</div><div><h3 class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Idaho issues permit for megaload to cross state</h3><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Snow has delayed a 450-ton shipment of oilfield equipment from moving into Idaho as it rumbles toward the tar sands oil development in Canada.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The company hauling the megaload had expected to cross the border from Vale, Ore., into Idaho on Friday night.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Spokeswoman Holly Zander says they will have to wait for better weather, and hope to try again Saturday night.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, the state of Idaho has issued a permit for the megaload to use highways crossing the southern part of the state on its way to Montana.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The equipment was manufactured in Portland, and carried by barge up the Columbia River to the Port of Umatilla, then loaded on a huge trailer.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Environmentalists have tried to block the shipment, contending tar-sands development will contribute to global warming.</span></p></div><div>----------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Tick . . . Tock . . . Tick . . . Tock . . . Tick . . . Tock . . .</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:C4784379-0DEB-468D-A79D-AC676E0A2E0A" alt="image.jpeg" id="C4784379-0DEB-468D-A79D-AC676E0A2E0A" width="682" height="565"><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, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">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, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">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, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">- John Lennon<br></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>