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Information from Connie Fogal

American citizens from four Northwestern States have BLOCKED a huge EXXON (Esso) mega-shipment destined for the TarSands. For information, google 'giant alberta bound oil sands' which should get you to the Portland Oregonian at www.oregonlive.com Or: www.allagainstthehaul.org a citizen group. The story is HUGE: A giant TarSands FACTORY has been built - IN KOREA - because of course we can't build factories in Canada!! And this TarSands factory is being shipped in huge 'modules' TO THE TARSANDS ... From Korea, across the Pacific to the west coast of the United States at Vancouver Washington. Then BY BARGE up the Columbia River, and OFFLOADED in the town of Lewiston Idaho.. There are 34 modules, each as wide as a two lane highway, some 30 feet tall, and about 60 yards long... These are the FIRST of hundreds of modules that will be shipped from Korea to Alberta, and the people of Idaho don't want this and they have BLOCKED THEM in Lewiston. Exxon's plan is to move the modules to Alberta on giant trucks; but the modules are so big they can't go through overpasses, so they have to take them through Idaho and Montana on backroads, which will have to be shut down, and sometimes widened, because these things are two-lanes wide. It would take NINE nights for each module to go the 500 miles to the Canadian border... But Exxon screwed up ... They don't have the proper 'highway permits' and the people of Idaho and Montana have blocked the trucks, saying they don't want their rivers and roads destroyed transporting these horrible machines to, of all horrible places, the TarSands... We Canadians can join this great fight: I am asking everyone who gets this to contact your local member of the Corporate Media and ask them to tell this story. I think Canada's Corporate Media has already been ordered not to cover this story, but please ask them, see what they say, and then go from there... and contact your federal and provincial politicians too... and tell your friends... jack etkin jetkino@yanoo.ca www.oregonlive.com 'giant alberta bound oil' www.allagainstthehaul.org Layla Turman: layla@allagainstthehaul.org Zack Porter: zack@allagainstthehaul.org Some members of All Against The Haul: Advocates for the West Alliance for the Wild Rockies Climate Solutions Columbia Riverkeeper Idaho Rivers United National Wildlife Federation Nez Perce Tribe People for Puget Sound Sierra Club Summer Nelson Law Washington Environmental Council Wild Steelhead Coalition and dozens more...