MegaLoads -- Idaho, Montana -- Update

Long-time readers know the background to this story. For others, you may want to check this link first.

Now, an update:

Massive coke drums must be shipped overland from inland ports, and while the so-called "megaloads," which can weigh as much as 600,000 pounds and span two highway lanes in width, have been effectively halted on Idaho's scenic Highway 12, the new route takes them from the Port of Pasco, across the Idaho Panhandle--either from Spokane on I-90 or from Lewiston to Moscow and Coeur d'Alene on U.S. 95--and through northwest Montana to the Canadian border.

While push-back on the Highway 12 route pulled major media attention, the new alignment hasn't yet stirred much controversy. That's something Helen Yost, of Moscow-based direct action group Wild Idaho Rising Tide, would like to change.

File under: Don Quixote.