"The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has decided to withdraw from participation in tomorrow night’s Community Forum on the BNSF," according to a news release from the Kootenai Environmental Alliance and NIC Students for Progressive Change. "The reason given was that the agency does not want to jeopardize its request for preliminary injunction against the BNSF Fueling Depot."

The community forum, "Protecting Our Aquifer, Where Do We Go From Here? will focus on the BNSF Fueling Depot Controversy. It will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the NIC Coeur d'Alene Room in the Edminster Student Union.

Panelists: panelists are: Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin, Ken Lustig, ex-Panhandle Health District director; county P&Z director Rand Wichman; Mike LaScoula, Spokane Regional Health District; former Spokane councilwoman Cheri Rodgers; and Buell Hollister, Friends of the Aquifer board member.

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