[Vision2020] At least 1,400 Mega-Loads on Highway 12

[Paul Rumelhart]

Does anyone know what kind of equipment this is?

Paul



----- Original Message ----
From: "nickgier at roadrunner.com" <nickgier at roadrunner.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 9:16:47 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] At least 1,400 Mega-Loads on Highway 12

Hi Dave,

Thanks for posting the link to Fighting Goliath, a local activist group composed of people along Highway 12.  Check out the amazing picture of the loads dwarfing a logging truck at the bottom of their site at www.fightinggoliath.org Add your name to a petition sponsored by "No Shipments Network" at www.ipetitions.com/petition/notrucksnotarsands

These people are busy making their own measurements on the turns and they are sure that the loads will wipe out trees and scrape rock walls all along the way.

The site has a fact sheet that points to a least 1,400 loads along this corridor.  I've added this paragraph to my column (new full version attached), which has already appeared in the Idaho State Journal, Sandpoint Reader, and NewWest e-magazine.  It will appear in the Daily News next Wednesday.

Fighting Goliath, a local activist group, has compiled an impressive list of facts that point to a permanent mega-load route. On its website the Port of Lewiston states: "If one oil company is successful with this alternative transportation route, many other companies will follow their lead." The South Korean manufacture of the equipment anticipates $1.5 billion in future orders, which translates into 1,200 additional modules.  A statement released by the Idaho congressional delegation reveals that "there exists the potential to import hundreds of component modules through the Columbia/Snake River System and Port of Lewiston."

Nick