Imperial Oil

As last load departs, megaload opponents claim victory

The driver of a large load of oil refinery equipment that struck and damaged a van in northern Idaho has been cited for inattentive driving. The collision on Dec. 6 near Moscow led the Idaho Transportation Department to suspend shipments of Imperial Oil equipment to an oil sands project in Canada...

Montana officials have started issuing permits to an Exxon Mobil subsidiary to ship about 300 loads of oversized oil refinery equipment over interstates 90 and 15 to the northern border. Duane Williams of the state Department of Transportation said Wednesday the agency has so far issued permits for six loads to travel from the Idaho-Montana line to Alberta, Canada...

Imperial Oil has finalized its case to speed the approval process for its effort to move huge loads of equipment from Idaho through northwestern Montana to a project in Canada.