Omega-Morgan

Three women were arrested just after midnight on Friday, March 14, as they sat in the road blocking the progress of a shipment of equipment bound for the oil fields in Canada.

The megaload of oil equipment headed from Oregon to Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, is now resting at a turnout by the Lolo scales on Highway 93 South between Missoula and Lolo.

A windstorm in Cutbank has forced a major change for the megaload of oil equipment headed into Montana, necessitating a stay of nearly two weeks in Bonner.

News reports that the megaload of oil equipment headed for the tar sands in Canada would enter Montana sometime this weekend are erroneous, according to the Montana Department of Transportation.

The megaload of oil refinery equipment headed for the tar sands of Canada is traveling through Oregon and will soon arrive in Idaho, however, no permit has yet been issued for the shipment to cross through Montana.

Oregon-based Omega-Morgan is in the midst of moving the first of two 644,000 pound evaporators from Washington state through Idaho on U.S. Highway 12, over Lolo Pass and through Missoula, on its way to the tar sands in Alberta, Canada.