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December 21, 2005
STOP I-3 partners with SAFC
The Stop I-3 Coalition has significantly expanded its reach
in partnership with the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition,
based out of Asheville, North Carolina.
The partnership, which will facilitate tax-exempt contributions
to the Stop I-3 Coalition, "will allow us to more than
double our efforts to stop this interstate," said Elizabeth
Wells, chairperson of the Stop I-3 group. Read
more...
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To find out more about the Southern Appalachian Forest
Coalition
visit their website at www.safc.org.
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December 14, 2005
Stop I-3 Petition Drive Underway
The Stop I-3 Coalition today announced a major
petition drive aimed at convincing elected officials to drop
plans for a proposed, new interstate highway that would run
from Knoxville to Savannah, via Augusta. Read
more...
September 7, 2005
Stop I-3 Coalition calls on
Congress to redirect highway money to Gulf reconstruction
The Stop I-3 Coalition today called on Rep.
Charlie Norwood and the rest of the Georgia delegation in
Congress to redirect federal highway money where it is truly
needed – to rebuilding the Gulf Coast. Read
more...
August 24, 2005
Mountain residents raise common-sense
questions and concerns about Interstate
About 600 area residents recently attended public
meetings in Murphy, North Carolina, and Cleveland, Georgia,
to raise questions and learn more about the proposed Interstate
highway that would cut through the mountains of Southern Appalachia.
Big turnouts are testament to the deep concern
the proposed Interstate 3 is generating in this area, said
Elizabeth Wells, chairperson of the Stop I-3 Coalition.
“These are our neighbors and friends, hard-working,
salt-of-the-earth kind of people who do not understand why
our government wants to push such a huge, destructive roadway
through areas that neither want nor need it,” she said.
The proposed I-3 would cut through the mountains, inevitably,
on its way from Savannah to Knoxville. Read
more...
August 8, 2005
Norwood goes into "neutral"
on I-3 for constituents in Georgia mountains
DILLARD, Georgia -- Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-9th, today (August
8) took a somewhat neutral stand regarding the proposed Interstate
highway that would cut through north Georgia and Southern
Appalachia on its way from Savannah to Knoxville.
First, he wants to see the results of a federal study of
the proposed Interstate, he told an audience of about 70 area
residents at a public breakfast meeting in Dillard. "So,
I'm not sure if I'm for it or against it at this point,"
he said. Read more...
August 4, 2005
White County Commissioners Take Strong
Stand, Oppose Interstate 3
The White County (Ga.) Board of Commissioners on Tuesday
evening Aug. 2, 2005 unanimously declared its opposition to
a federal proposal to build Interstate 3 through their locale.
The three Commissioners each spoke to a courthouse full of
White Co. citizens who turned out to oppose the interstate.
They are also drafting a letter to their Congressmen stating
their opposition. Some ten speakers, including District 8
State Rep. Charles Jenkins, spoke against building this huge
highway through the mountains and in support of the STOP 1-3
Coalition's position. Rep. Jenkins told the Commissioners,
"We don't want an interstate through the North Georgia
mountains." Jenkins also said he had talked with U.S.
Sen. Johnny Isakson who told him, "If the people of North
Georgia don't want that road, then you're not going to have
it." Read more...
July 27, 2005
Federal studies cast doubt on economic
benefit of Interstates
Stop I-3 Coalition also warns of nuclear transport
issues
Running an Interstate highway right through the mountains
of Southern Appalachia will likely not create the economic
benefits that Congressional proponents of this road like to
claim - according to the federal government's own studies.
"Congressmen explain that the proposed Interstate 3
will help us, but the studies suggest the opposite,"
said Elizabeth Wells, spokeswoman of the STOP I-3 coalition.
The group came together to counter efforts to run an Interstate
from Knoxville to Savannah, that inevitably would cut through
the mountains. Read more...
July 26, 2005
Mountain communities organize to
fight new interstate highway
Civic and conservation organizations and hundreds of individuals
across the mountains of north Georgia and Western North Carolina
have organized to counter a proposed new interstate that would
cut through the heart of their farms, homes and businesses.
The Stop I-3 Coalition represents a growing confederation
of local county groups and interested citizens who have grave
doubts about the value of the new interstate proposal wending
its way through the halls of Congress. Read
more...
July 7, 2005
Rabun commissioners declare unanimous
opposition to Interstate
The five-member Rabun Board of Commissioners Thursday declared
its unanimous opposition to any proposed Interstate highway
coming through the county.
"We are unanimously with you," commission chairman
Eston E. Melton Jr. told a standing-room-only crowd at the
courthouse that evening. "We are to a person opposed
to this Interstate." Read more...
July 4, 2005
Rabun residents form Stop I-3 chapter,
Urge large turn-out at board meet Thursday
The STOP I-3 Rabun Chapter urges all Rabun residents to turn
out for the county commissioners' Town Hall meeting Thursday,
July 7, at 6 p.m. to signal their concern over proposals to
run a new Interstate Highway through the mountains of north
Georgia.
"Now is the time to stand up and be counted to help
stop this road," said Lucy Ezzard Bartlett, spokeswoman
for the chapter. Read more...
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