12/29/05
White County News-Telegraph
Stop I-3 partners with
green group: I-3 opponents can make tax-free donations
12/19/05
Athens Banner-Herald
I-3
opponents too late to fight for mountains
11/14/05
Newsweek
Once
Unique, Soon a Place Like Any Other
11/9/05
Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Commissioners:
“I’ve learned more, I’m not for (Interstate
3).”
11/04/05, Greenwire
Epic battle looms over
coast-to-mountains highway proposal
11/2/05
Creative Loafing
Road
Rage
10/27/05
The Gainesville Times
Critics:
New interstate a waste of funds
10/4/05
NPR's "Morning Edition"
Mountain
Interstate Plans Raise Alarm
10 or 11, 2005
The Cherokee Scout
Two editorials:
I-3 not right for our area
Don't get fooled by the rhetoric
9/14/05
Smoky Mountain News
I-3
planning process shrouded in ambiguity
9/12/05
AccessNorthGa.com
Stop
I-3 Coalition says Congress should use funds for Katrina relief
9/8/05
White County News-Telegraph
'Boondoggle'
9/7/05
St Petersburg Times
From
disaster to disgrace
9/6/05
WSB-TV, Channel 2
Partial transcript of interview
re Interstate 3
9/2/05
Savannah Morning News
Detour
highway bill
9/2/05
Towns County Sentinel
"STOP I-3" presented
to Rotarians
8/31/05
Georgia ForestWatch
Our back yards must get
bigger if the Stop I-3 fight is to succeed
8/29/05
The New York Times
Destroying
the National Parks
8/28/05
The Gainesville Times
I-3
should not be built just to carry nuclear materials
8/28/05
White County News-Telegraph
Interstate 3 opponents ask
why
8/26/05
White County News-Telegraph
Our
View
8/24/05
The Gainesville Times
Chambliss takes no stance
on mountain interstate
8/24/05
The Gainesville Times
I-3 opponents say politicians
invited to rally, but most didn't show
8/23/05
The Toccoa Record
Norwood
holds closed meeting
8/22/05
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Opposition
lines road to proposed interstates
8/12/05
The Northeast Georgian
Norwood says no I-3
route being considered
8/11/05
The Clayton Tribune
Norwood: Wait and see on I-3
8/10/05
Asheville Citizen-Times
Not
so fast on this whole I-3 thing
8/8/05
Asheville Citizen-Times
Interstate
3 study stirs WNC protest - Residents organize to fight road
plan
8/7/05
The Gainesville Times
Plans
for interstate again threaten our mountains' beauty
8/5/05
The Northeast Georgian
Highway bill to help fund Cornelia corridor
widening
8/5/05
The Knoxville News Sentinel
Williams:
Stand against destructive
I-3
8/4/05
White County News - Telegraph
White County Commission rejects
I-3 plan
7/31/05
Gwinnett Daily Post
New
interstate through the South has growing opposition
7/31/05
St. Petersburg Times
Interstate
is to mountains what drilling is to the gulf
7/30/05
WMAC-AM
Plan
For New SE Interstate Meetings With Opposition
7/29/05
Anderson Independent-Mail
I-3 study receives funding
boost
7/27/05
Chattooga Quarterly
Editorial
by Buzz Williams
7/27/05
Chattooga Quarterly
Interstate
3
7/24/05
Athens Banner-Herald
Reactions
mixed to proposed interstates
7/23/05
Anderson Independent-Mail
I-3 study on the way to President's
desk
7/14/05
The Clayton Tribune
Commissioners: No interstate
7/13 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mountains
no place for interstate
7/13/05
The Northeast Georgian
I-3: Just say 'no'
7/9/05
Rabun commissioners declare unanimous opposition to Interstate.
7/6/05
Smoky Mountain News
6/28/05
The Northeast Georgian
Stop I-3 Coalition encourages writing letters
to congressmen
6/24/05
The Northeast Georgian
Commission says 'no' to I-3
6/17/05
The Knoxville News Sentinel
Are we ready for another interstate?
6/3/05
The Northeast Georgian
Interstate 3 route study could begin soon
2/28/05
Virginia's New Economy
The Shape
of the Future: Interstate Crime
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8/28/05, White
County News-Telegraph
Republished with permission
Interstate 3 opponents ask why
by Carolyn Mathews
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Janet Brown of Dahlonega, left, and Kathy
Shelnut of Cleveland look at a poster displaying newspaper
articles that have been written on proposed Interstate
3. Stop I-3, a coalition that opposes the interstate
through the mountains, held a regional information meeting
at White County High School Tuesday. (Staff photo/Carolyn
Mathews)
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Members of the multi-state Stop I-3 organization want to
know why an interstate is being planned for Southern Appalachians.
Elizabeth Wells, Chairperson of the Georgia division of the
anti-interstate group formed this spring as a reaction to
a proposed interstate from Savannah to Knoxville, said Tuesday
that U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson has communicated by letter with
the group, telling them a $1.3 million feasibility study being
financed by the federal government will determine if an interstate
is a good idea. "However, he didn't answer the most important
question," Wells said, "which is who wants this
interstate and why."
Community speakers speaking on the subject of I-3 urged more
than 200 people attending an informational rally at White
County High School to fight efforts to build the interstate.
Money for a feasibility study for Interstate 3 and another
interstate that would run from Augusta to Mississippi was
included in the recent highway bill signed by President George
W. Bush. The feasibility study is expected to take 12-18 months.
Isakson, Wells said, did better than U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss
and Congressman Charlie Norwood. Empty chairs sitting on the
high school auditorium stage represented the absence of the
two elected officials.
John Clarke, president of the North Carolina chapter of Stop
I-3 has written a "white paper" on a suggested link
between the transportation of nuclear waste and the plan for
the highway. Clarke said the current federal energy bill encourages
increased nuclear production and most of it is happening at
Oak Ridge and at the Savannah River Nuclear Site near Augusta.
"I just don't think it's any accident that highway is
planned right now," he said. Clarke said a nuclear waste
disposal facility at Yucca Mountain probably won't happen
and that nuclear waste may be disposed of at the Savannah
River Nuclear Site instead. Clarke and Rabun County resident
Lucy Ezzard Bartlett both cited twisting roads and foggy weather
as potential causes for truck wrecks on an interstate placed
through the mountains. Some of those trucks, they say, would
carry hazardous wastes.
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