[Vision2020] New Montana Permits Issued for Megaload Shipments

[Tom Hansen]

Let's hope that sleep is all they lose on Third Street in Spokane.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



On Thu, November 10, 2011 9:32 am, Friends of the Clearwater wrote:
> All,
>
> Very interesting to see the words "transport all of the modules" via
> the interstate. More good news for the Lochsa.
>
>
>
> Brett
> Outreach & Education
>
>
> Courtesy of KHQ at:
>
> <http://www.khq.com/story/16002292/new-montana-permits-issued-for-megaload-shipments>http://www.khq.com/story/16002292/new-montana-permits-issued-for-megaload-shipments
>
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>
> New Montana permits issued for megaload shipments
>
> By MATT VOLZ
> Associated Press
>
> HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Montana officials have started issuing permits
> to an Exxon Mobil subsidiary to ship about 300 loads of oversized oil
> refinery equipment over interstates 90 and 15 to the northern border.
>
> Duane Williams of the state Department of Transportation said
> Wednesday the agency has so far issued permits for six loads to
> travel from the Idaho-Montana line to Alberta, Canada.
>
> The modules are smaller versions of the so-called megaloads that
> Imperial Oil had proposed shipping across scenic two-lane highways in
> Idaho and Montana. A judge has temporarily blocked the loads from
> that original route while he considers a legal challenge.
>
> Imperial Oil officials have said the company applied to transport all
> of the modules along the interstate route rather than jeopardize
> plans to have the equipment in place by late 2012.
>
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>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho


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