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Lawsuit: Extra Wide Loads Should be a No-Go for US-12

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010   

GRANGEVILLE, Idaho - The shipping route for extra tall and wide oil company project equipment planned on U.S. Highway 12 along the Clearwater and Lochsa Rivers in Idaho has taken a detour - to the courtroom. Three owners of tourism-based businesses along the route, which starts at the Port of Lewiston, are objecting.

Plaintiff Borg Hendrickson explains that the shipments will delay traffic, and present safety and environmental risks.

"We feel that our businesses would be harmed by having the Clearwater/Lochsa corridor turned into an industrial truck route."

The Idaho Transportation Department has to issue special wide load permits before the loads can move, permits now on hold because of the lawsuit. Hendrickson says she and others in the region have put together hundreds of pages of documents outlining concerns and comments about turning the highway into a truck route, but feel their voices haven't been heard.

"We once in a while would get an e-mail, but not frequently. We've also copied all of this to the Governor, from whom we have received absolutely no response."

Highway 12 has been selected by ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil to transport equipment from the Port of Lewiston to Billings, with some equipment then moving to Canada. Company spokespeople have said I-90 was ruled out as the route because the trailers are too tall to fit under overpasses, and too wide to use off-ramps to go around. Hendrickson claims the companies rejected the interstate because the shipments would have been subject to federal environmental review.

The lawsuit was filed in Grangeville by Advocates for the West on behalf of Borg Hendrickson, Linwood Laughy and Peter Grubb.


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