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Statehouse Mega-Load Protest: It’s Not Just About the Trucks

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011   

BOISE, Idaho – About 100 people will protest on the Idaho Statehouse steps on Wednesday, taking issue with the "mega-load" oil company shipments rolling along Highway 12.

While much debate has focused on the size of the loads - each about three stories tall - and risks to the environment if there's an accident, those gathering for the demonstration say they have a bigger beef. Event organizer Greg Stahl says if it wasn't for the citizen whistleblowers who brought the plans to light, the public would never had been offered a chance to review the plans, or chime in.

"Regardless of where people fall with their opinions on these issues, this was orchestrated behind the scenes and outside of the public eye."

The first shipments are moving this week. They are bound for Montana, where the equipment will upgrade an oil refinery - which means new jobs for that area. An additional 250-plus shipments from other oil companies are also headed over much of the same route.

Bobby McEnaney, a lands and wildlife program representative for the Natural Resources Defense Council, worked on getting public documents from Korea translated - documents from a manufacturer that indicate the next round of shipments is already a "done deal," even without notification from Idaho officials. Now that the light is shining on what he calls behind-the-scenes deals, McEnaney hopes the decisions will involve all stakeholders along the route.

"It makes more sense to have an up-front process at this point, so we all can understand what might be the cumulative impacts over the long run."

The additional shipments have a final destination in Canada, although permits have not yet been issued for those loads.




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