A barge pushes Alberta tar sands water treatment equipment manufactured in the Portland, Oregon, area up the Columbia and Snake Rivers to the Port of Wilma near Lewiston, Idaho.

A water treatment module of unknown ownership awaits transport by Omega Morgan from the Port of Wilma, Washington, to Fort McMurray, Alberta (Barry Kough photo).

Wild Idaho Rising Tide activists demonstrate resistance to the first Alberta tar sands megaload to successfully cross Idaho and Montana via the Highway 12 wild and scenic river corridor through the largest wildlands complex in the lower 48 states.