The Palouse Prairie Foundation and the White Pine Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society will hold a discussion of the proposed realignment of U.S. Highway 95 between Moscow and Thorncreek Road, and how it might affect native flora and fauna.
The presentation is 7 p.m. Thursday at the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St.
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Before we send to you a more comprehensive newsletter with reports and photos about our recent actions and related dirty energy developments and resistance, we invite your participation in these upcoming grassroots-led initiatives.
UPCOMING EVENTS!
February 4: IRAGE Activists on the Climate Justice Forum (website excerpted)
February 6: Anti-Fracking Strategy Session in Boise
From 1 until 3 pm this Wednesday, activists of Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction, United Vision for Idaho, Wild Idaho Rising Tide, and other invited groups, such as Occupy Boise and the Sierra Club, are meeting at the Solid Grill and Bar, 405 South 8th Street in Boise. The reserved space for five to twenty people will accommodate a group lunch and privacy, as participants discuss strategies to oppose natural gas development in Idaho and plan a mid-March weekend direct action workshop and petition signature presentation action. IRAGE and WIRT are currently working with CREDO Action to launch and circulate an online/print petition demanding a legislative ban on fracking in Idaho until further study criteria are met. While we doubt our lawmakers will grant our requests, the petition serves to bring awareness and education to Idaho voters. Petitioners will explain the circumstances, rules, and laws surrounding recent and upcoming natural gas and injection well drilling, while collecting signatures at public events and information booths like those at Farmers Markets. We intend to pressure and document the stances of our state officials, to assert their accountability if (when) fracking problems arise, before stronger citizen initiatives during the next election cycle.
February 7: Highway 95 Realignment Possible Impacts on Palouse Prairie and Native Plants
The Palouse Prairie Foundation and the White Pine Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society are co-sponsoring a public presentation and discussion about the potential effects on native flora and fauna of the proposed re-routing of U.S. Highway 95 between Moscow and Thorn Creek Road. Please converge at 7 pm this Thursday in the 1912 Center Fiske Room, 412 East Third Street in Moscow, to learn more about this critical local situation. Continue reading
Activists should move beyond specific issues and focus on the big picture if they hope to retain the ability to shape the nature of their own communities, a Spokane-based community organizer said on Saturday in Moscow.
“In a very real way, we don’t have a fracking problem, we don’t have a (genetically modified organism) problem, and we don’t have a local economy problem – we have a democracy problem,” Kai Huschke said.
Huschke, an organizer with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), said communities can’t necessarily expect the existing regulatory system to work in their favor when it comes to corporate interests.
The Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition, Wild Idaho Rising Tide, and other community organizations sponsored his appearances on Friday and Saturday in Moscow. Continue reading
On the Monday, February 4, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) again welcomes Alma Hasse and Tina Fisher of Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction, talking about natural gas developments and resistance in southwest Idaho. As the legislature approves state oil and gas commission appointments by the governor and industry-compromised injection well regulations, citizens are crafting a statewide petition to ban toxic drilling practices and are voicing their concerns about private and state land leases (even UNDER the Payette River), flaring and seismic testing impacts, and impending fracking, waste wells, and pipelines. WIRT invites listeners to share their insights during the show broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST live at 92.5 FM and online, by calling the station studio at 208-892-9200. Thanks to the generous, anonymous supporter who adopted program host Helen Yost as his KRFP DJ, the show also covers continent-wide dirty energy schemes and climate activism news.
A megaload that started from the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley on Wednesday and had been parked nine miles east of Lowell was expected to scale Lolo Pass late Friday night or early this morning.
A second super-sized rig could have also made progress toward Montana early this morning on U.S. Highway 12 in Idaho. Its departure from six miles east of Lowell, where it arrived late Thursday night or early Friday morning, was dependent on how well the trip went for the rig ahead of it. The second load left Lewiston on Thursday night. Continue reading
A megaload was parked nine miles east of here on Thursday, awaiting the second leg of a journey on U.S. Highway 12 that started Wednesday.
Another extra-large rig was expected to enter Idaho after 10 pm on Thursday and travel an unspecified distance on U.S. Highway 12, said Adam Rush, a spokesman for the Idaho Transportation Department in Boise.
The load that left on Wednesday was likely not going to travel again on Thursday night, Rush said, weather conditions permitting. Continue reading
Two more megaloads and their entourage of pilot and support vehicles will brave the winter highways from Lolo Pass and through Missoula early next week.
Duane Williams of the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) said the oversized loads will probably start down U.S. Highway 12 from four miles east of the Idaho line late Monday night, unless weather delays their travel in Idaho.
They will stop at Bonner, then journey up Montana Highway 200 and over Rogers Pass on the next leg. Mammoet, the contract hauler, is taking the ConocoPhillips evaporator vessels from Newberg, Oregon, to northern Alberta. Continue reading
More photos posted by March 6.
![Bantrel Conoco Evaporator [Enlarged]](https://wildidahorisingtide.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bantrel-conoco-evaporator-enlarged.jpg)
A megaload that left the Port of Wilma just west of Clarkston on Wednesday evening is now parked nine miles east of Lowell on U.S. Highway 12 in Idaho.
It is not expected to travel again tonight with the distance depending on weather and road conditions, said Adam Rush, a spokesman for the Idaho Transportation Department in Boise.
(By Elaine Williams, The Lewiston Tribune)
Megaload-empty Port of Lewiston (Tom Hansen photo)
Offloading protest signs at the Port of Wilma (Tom Hansen photo)
Offloading protest signs at the Port of Wilma (Tom Hansen photo)
Gathering to march at the tar sands megaload-tardy Port of Wilma (Greg Mack photo)
Marching at the tar sands megaload-tardy Port of Wilma (Greg Mack photo)
