<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Courtesy of KHQ at</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/14973444/schweitzer-urges-megaload-construction-in-montana">http://www.khq.com/story/14973444/schweitzer-urges-megaload-construction-in-montana</a><div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><div id="WNStoryHeader" style="margin-bottom: 13px; "><h3 class="" style="display: block; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; ">Schweitzer urges megaload construction in Montana</h3><em class="wnDate" style="display: block; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; line-height: 0.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: normal; "><em class="wnDate" style="display: inline !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; line-height: 0.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: normal; ">By MATT GOURAS</span></em></span></em></div><div id="WNStoryBody" class="" style="font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; display: inline; ">Associated Press<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Gov. Brian Schweitzer is telling Exxon Mobil Corp. officials that the company should manufacture some of their oversized oil refinery equipment in Montana as a way of reducing criticism against "megaload" shipments.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">More than 200 of the oversized rigs are slated to travel through Idaho and Montana over the next year to the Kearl Oil Fields in Alberta, Canada. But the shipments have been mired in legal and political disputes.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Critics argue the loads will tie up traffic and damage roads in pristine areas. The loads are also criticized by conservationists who oppose developing Canada's oil sands.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Schweitzer has no such issues. He advised the company in a Friday meeting a portion of future loads could be made in Montana to create jobs and make it easier to overcome objections.</p></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">-------------------------------------------</span><br><br></div><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> <br><div>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">and the Realist adjusts his sails."</span></div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>