Late on Friday afternoon, November 22, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) issued a permit to Hillsboro, Oregon-based heavy-hauler Omega Morgan, who intends to begin moving the first, heaviest, and longest megaload of tar sands mining equipment ever to transgress Umatilla and Warm Springs aboriginal homelands in eastern Oregon on Sunday night, November 24. See Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s website for more details.
Megaloads? Tar Sands? Pipelines? Climate Change? What’s the Connection? Explore these questions with local citizens who journeyed to the tar sands of northern Alberta to join the First Nations (Native Americans) and other concerned citizens from across the continent for the Healing Walk. Led by First Nations elders and leaders, participants witnessed the scale of environmental devastation caused by tar sands mining and crude oil processing.
Six local healing walkers will share what they learned on their solidarity journey, connecting the local and regional megaloads, huge pipeline projects, impacts on people and places, and overarching climate change and moral issues. Their presentation and discussion, A Healing Walk Through the Alberta Tar Sands, will be on Saturday, December 7 from 3 to 5pm. This event is in the Arts Workshop room immediately following the Winter Market at the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St., Moscow. Sponsored by the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition, Wild Idaho Rising Tide, Idaho Sierra Club and 350 Idaho. For further information, contact Pat Fuerst, epfuerst@frontier.com.
December’s meeting will be at 1:00 p.m. – NOT noon. At the Yellow House (414 E. 2nd St. Moscow).
Agenda Items: will include: Citizens Climate Lobby update; discussion of last Saturday’s Healing Walk presentation, and how we might improve it next time; updates on UI Sustainability Center, megaloads.
Any additional agenda items?
Any other upcoming events for PESC, or other environmentally-related issues?
For those of you unable to attend the Healing walk presentation last Saturday, it went pretty well but ran too long and not so smoothly. We expect to be giving it again in the near future, at UI and WSU.
The PCEI Nature Center needs your help! As a hub for environmental education and sustainable living projects, we are in constant need of volunteers to help maintain and improve our 12.3-acre site. Join us every Tuesday for Drop-In Volunteer Day 10am-4pm. If you have a specific skill set, or would like to be a project
Open to the public. Please email Carole Wells for an agenda. Need directions to PCEI?
We are excited to show off the PCEI Nature Center after the sun goes down! Full moon hikes will be centered on nocturnal animals, phases of the moon, history and folklore surrounding our lunar companion. Star parties are all about looking up! We’ll point the telescopes up, turn off the lights, and learn about the “creatures” in the night sky. Bring the family for these unique opportunities!
Cost: Free for PCEI members and K-12 students, $5 for non-members
Directions to the PCEI Nature center can be found at http://www.pcei.org/nature-center/
(from Pat Rathmann) “Our UUCP friend and law professor Anastasia Telesetsky is giving a talk on “Planet Ocean: Why the Law of the Sea Matters in 21st Century America” This Wednesday at 12 noon in the Fiske Room. I plan on going. Maybe we can get her to give an evening presentation for our group.”
