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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12/29/05, White
County News-Telegraph
Republished with permission
Stop I-3 partners with green group: I-3 opponents can make
tax-free donations
By Carolyn Mathews
Local citizens now may make tax-deductible contributions
to the effort to stop the interstate that is planned to traverse
the North Georgia mountains.
The White County-based Stop I-3 Coalition has announced its
partnership this week with the Southern Appalachian Forest
Coalition, a large, eight-state, non-profit.
The partnership, Stop I-3 Chairperson Elizabeth Wells of
Sautee-Nacoochee said, enables the anti-interstate to solicit
tax-free donations to its effort on its Web site (www.stopi-3.org).
“This will allow us to significantly expand our efforts
to stop I-3,” Wells said.
The multi-state anti-interstate group formed this spring
as a reaction to a proposed interstate from Savannah to Knoxville.
Congress passed a $1.3 million appropriation for a feasibility
study to determine if the interstate is needed. The study
was expected to take 12-18 months, but Wells said Monday that
the Georgia and North Carolina transportation departments
do not want to do the study. Therefore, she said, the study
has yet to be contracted out by the Federal Highway Administration.
Stop I-3 aims to counter federal efforts to build the proposed
interstate.Coalition members suggest links between the transportation
of nuclear waste and the plan for the highway. The coaltion
contends that such a huge and expensive new road would do
irreparable harm to mountain economies, forest, farms, and
streams and to the rural quality of life.
SAFC and its 22 member organizations, have a goal to strengthen
grassroots groups like the Stop I-3 Coalition, according to
Director Mark Shelley.“We want to help catalyze the effort
to stop I-3,” Shelley said. “This road, if it's
ever built, would destroy many of our hopes for forest conservation
in this southern Appalachian region.”
Contributions to support the effort to stop construction
of the interstate can be made directly at www.Stopi-3.org
by clicking on the red button on the Web site. Checks also
can be mailed to the Stop I-3 Coalition, c/o Southern Appalachian
Forest Coalition, 46 Haywood Street, Suite 323, Asheville,
N.C. 28801. The check should be made out to SAFC with notation
that it is for the Stop I-3 Coalition.
“We are delighted with the formation of this partnership,
which will enable the Stop I-3 Coalition to do the much-needed
expansion of grass roots organization, research and education,”
Wells said. “We are pleased with what we have been able
to accomplish thus far, but you haven't seen anything yet
as to what is coming next.”
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