Paperwork is succeeding in doing what protesters could not – stopping the so-called ‘megaloads.”
According to Boise Weekly, the first 900,000-pound megaload is parked along Highway 93, just south of the Idaho-Montana border. The reason? Montana’s transportation department has not finished the necessary paperwork that would permit the megaload to travel through its state before heading to the tar sands oil project in Alberta, Canada.
Despite the paperwork snafu, the Idaho Transportation Department has issued a permit for a second megaload to enter the Gem State, according to Boise Weekly. That shipment, weighing 800,000 pounds, crossed the Oregon-Idaho border on Jan. 5. A third megaload is scheduled to leave the Port of Umatilla any day.
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