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Title: Heavy Haul Speakers TourLocation: AH177, Anderson Hall, University of LethbridgeDescription: Join speakers from the Nez Perce Tribe, The Rising Tide Northern Rockies Collective, All Against the Haul, Friends of the Clearwater, Sierra Club Prairie, Greenpeace, and rural residents from farming and Indigenous communities along the shipping route for a week-long tour raising awareness about the tar sands equipment called the ‘heavy haul.’ These mega loads are shipped from Idaho via Montana towards the Kearl site in Alberta.
Heavy hauls and megaloads are giant pieces of heavy crude oil, or tar …