Examiner: Big Load Foes Can Contest

The Idaho Transportation Department just announced that its hearing officer, Merlyn Clark, has ruled that opponents of the four proposed ConocoPhillips megaloads on U.S. Highway 12 have a right to contest permits for the loads. ITD Director Brian Ness “will review the recommendation,” the agency said in a brief news release, “and will decide the final action of the transportation department”/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise.

• ConocoPhillips: ‘We are disappointed’
• ITD can accept, reject, modify, hold hearing examiner’s decision
• Megaloads opponents’: ‘It’s good news’
• The hearing examiner’s decision