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<span class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="http://voices.idahostatesman.com/user/rockybarker" title="View user profile.">Rocky Barker</a> on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 9:02am.</span>
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<p>ExxonMobil is planning to ship oversized modules on U.S. 12 along
the winding route over Lolo Pass for the next decade according to the
Korean manufacturer of the modules and the Natural Resources Defense
Council.</p>
<p>Sung Jin Geotec has said in press releases it has a $1.5 billion,
10-year contract to build the , the 24 foot wide, 196 foot long, and 30
feet tall modules of mining parts that weigh 300,000 pounds. The 200 it
has already begun shipping to Lewiston, are only the beginning of the
program. The shipments are headed to the Kearl Oil Sands Project of the
ExxonMobil subsidiary Imperial Oil in Alberta.</p>
<p>The NRDC’s Bobby McEnaney, of its Lands & Wildlife Program, had
the documents translated that show the initial shipments are only the
first phase of the long term contract.</p>
<p>“This initial production, which will eventually amount to a total of
$1.5 billion [US] dollars, this being just the first production
guarantee for 20,000 tons of modules—resulting in 200 individual
modules—is on track to be completed by July 2011, Sung Jin Geotec said
in a March 3 press release. “After the first production round is
successful, and increased bitumen production is expected to be
successful (at the oil sands project), a guarantee to commence a second
round of production in 2012 will start automatically.”</p>
<p>ExxonMobil officials have said they are not looking at alternative
routes. They have run into a firestorm of opposition that has grown in
both Idaho and Montana.</p>
<p>The contract and Exxon’s long term plan “represents a proposal that
will alter the iconic Lolo Corridor into a permanent industrial
transportation corridor,” McEnaney said.</p></div></div><span><br><br>Read more: <a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" href="http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2010/10/14/rockybarker/contract_reveals_long_term_plan_oversized_shipments_us_12#ixzz12LbSp4NP">http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2010/10/14/rockybarker/contract_reveals_long_term_plan_oversized_shipments_us_12#ixzz12LbSp4NP</a></span></div></div></div><br>
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