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<p class=MsoNormal>Courtesy of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Idaho residents file lawsuit in attempt to halt big loads on
U.S. 12<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>August 16, 2010, 3:05 pm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Three Idaho residents are asking a state judge to block the
first wave of oversized shipments of oil equipment planned along scenic U.S.
Highway 12 in northern Idaho.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The lawsuit filed Monday seeks a temporary restraining order
barring ConocoPhillips from hauling big equipment from Lewiston to Billings,
Mont., starting as early as Wednesday. The loads would be the first of more
than 200 planned over the next year, although only four are scheduled to make
the trip to Billings. The two massive ConocoPhillips oil drums are at the Port
of Lewiston awaiting shipment, and will be transported in halves. Each of the
four loads bound for Billings is 25-feet in diameter and weighs more than 187
tons. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Imperial Oil, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corp., also wants
to haul heavy equipment from Lewiston to the Kearl Oil Sands in Alberta,
Canada. Some of those loads would weigh as much as 290 tons and stretch as long
as 210 feet, as wide as 24 feet and as high as 30 feet.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Opposition to the plan has been building for months.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The lawsuit claims the ConocoPhillips shipments would
threaten public safety, damage tourism and pose a risk to the pristine river
corridor. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The litigation was filed in Idaho County by Karen (Borg)
Hendrickson, Linwood Laughy and Peter Grubb, all of whom are owners of
businesses that depend on tourism, Hendrickson said. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hendrickson and Laughy, who are married, own Mountain Meadow
Press and Lewis Clark Idaho Road Tours plus Cedar Creek Creations, in which one
of their daughters and son-in-law are partial owners. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Grubb is the founder of ROW Adventures, which runs rafting
trips on the Lochsa River. He also operates businesses with lodging and a restaurant
along Highway 12 about 90 miles east of Lewiston. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>A copy of the lawsuit is forthcoming . . .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Stay tuned, V-peeps.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Corporations
are an oppressed minority forced to move headquarters from state to state in
search of friendlier tax codes--sometimes being forced to live just off our
shores in tiny mailboxes." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- John
Oliver, The Daily Show<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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