Climate-change activists continue to complicate the progress of a 450-ton evaporator, the first of three that are slowly lurching their way from the Port of Umatilla towards the Alberta “tar sands” oilfields.
Last night, 16 people were arrested outside John Day, OR after activists locked themselves to two “disabled vehicles” on highway 26 to slow the progress of the evaporator, currently being shipped by the heavy-haul company Omega-Morgan.
It seems unlikely that the activists (which include Native American groups who have, in some cases, successfully gotten court injunctions to stop the equipment from moving across reservation land) will be able to completely halt the progress of these 40-story pieces of equipment. But they seem determined to delay them for as long as they can, draw as much attention to the shipments as they can, and generally be as big a pain in the ass as possible.
