Sunday, June 26, 2011
Environment Montana Gov.: "Build Mega-Loads Here"
Posted by George Prentice on Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Following a full year of legal wrangling over mega-loads, the governor of Montana wants to take the debate concerning oversized shipments back to where it started. Why, said Gov. Brian Schweitzer, can't ExxonMobil manufacture some of its giant oil refinery equipment in Montana and avoid the controversy of hauling the mega-loads through Idaho and his state before heading up to the Kearl Oil Sands Project in Alberta, Canada?
In a face-to-face meeting with Exxon officials on Friday, Schweitzer said he had no issues regarding the oil sands project, but he advised the executives that future loads, made in Montana, would certainly create jobs and make it easier to overcome objections.
Meanwhile, the first of more than 200 ExxonMobil shipments are expected to roll from the Port of Lewiston a week from Monday, rolling up Highway 95 through Moscow and Coeur d'Alene before heading east on Highway 90 and north to Alberta. The two shipments were "cut down" to size by Exxon so they could be sent via an alternate route, avoiding U.S. Highway 12, which parallels the Clearwater and Lochsa Rivers. The Idaho Department of Transportation is still mulling over whether to permit Exxon to send its mega-loads along U.S. 12.
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This will make mega-load kids eyes bleed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPyR0namWfk
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who are these mega-load kids you speak of? is that how you refer to your children? you do seem like an individual that could be construed as a "mega-load", 5flabfatty.
Maybe a "mega-load" is the massive mental turds you drop here periodically?
They sure do stink up the place.
This is part of the Canadian Tar Sands projected project that needs to be stopped now.
The wilderness area that could be destroyed is the size of New York State! This is impacting many other communities and displacing those that live off the land, like native americans. The tar sands project is bad for the enviroment in other ways, using great amounts of energy and water to turn the oil sands to oil. It will also dump twicew amount of CO2 in the air.
Contact the Governor and President and voice you disapproval now!
Those Australian loads are just strings of semi-trailers/tanks, and since they are held together by pivoting hitches, the have some flexibility for cornering, unlike the Exxon megaloads. What was supposed to be so impressive? I am not sure I get your point. A string of semi trailers of basically normal height and width are puny compared to the Exxon loads, which are thirty feet tall and 24 feet wide in addition to their non-flexible 200+ foot lengths.
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