[Vision2020] 10-Year Contract for Big Loads

[Ron Force]

Contract reveals long term plan for oversized shipments on U.S. 12
Submitted by Rocky Barker on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 9:02am.  
ExxonMobil is planning to ship oversized modules on U.S. 12 along  the winding 
route over Lolo Pass for the next decade according to the  Korean manufacturer 
of the modules and the Natural Resources Defense  Council.
Sung Jin Geotec has said in press releases it has a $1.5 billion,  10-year 
contract to build the , the 24 foot wide, 196 foot long, and 30  feet tall 
modules of mining parts that weigh 300,000 pounds. The 200 it  has already begun 
shipping to Lewiston, are only the beginning of the  program. The shipments are 
headed to the Kearl Oil Sands Project of the  ExxonMobil subsidiary Imperial Oil 
in Alberta.
The NRDC’s Bobby McEnaney, of its Lands & Wildlife Program, had  the documents 
translated that show the initial shipments are only the  first phase of the long 
term contract.
“This initial production, which will eventually amount to a total of  $1.5 
billion [US] dollars, this being just the first production  guarantee for 20,000 
tons of modules—resulting in 200 individual  modules—is on track to be completed 
by July 2011, Sung Jin Geotec said  in a March 3 press release. “After the first 
production round is  successful, and increased bitumen production is expected to 
be  successful (at the oil sands project), a guarantee to commence a second  
round of production in 2012 will start automatically.”
ExxonMobil officials have said they are not looking at alternative  routes. They 
have run into a firestorm of opposition that has grown in  both Idaho and 
Montana.
The contract and Exxon’s long term plan “represents a proposal that  will alter 
the iconic Lolo Corridor into a permanent industrial  transportation corridor,” 
McEnaney said.

Read more: 
http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2010/10/14/rockybarker/contract_reveals_long_term_plan_oversized_shipments_us_12#ixzz12LbSp4NP



      
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