The two-year battle between residents who live along U.S. Highway 12 and ExxonMobil’s mega-loads is formally over.
“We’re gratified that the industrialization of the beautiful Lochsa-Clearwater U.S. 12 corrdior has, for now, been stopped,” wrote Borg Hendrickson to Citydesk. “And that the Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil threat to north-central Idaho’s outdoor recreation paradise and its single growing industry, tourism, has been removed.”
It was July 2010 when BW first told you about something called “mega-loads” – hundreds of giant rigs of oil equipment that ExxonMobil wanted to crawl across U.S. 12, before heading north to the oil-rich tar sands of Alberta, Canada.
Read more: Montana Closes Book on Plan to Roll Mega-Loads Across U.S. 12
(By George Prentice, Boise Weekly)
