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• Oil company backs off plan to use U.S. 12 for megaloads

  November 5, 2011 in Idaho on Page A5 HELENA – An ExxonMobil subsidiary has stepped back from plans to haul oversized oil refinery equipment to Canada along scenic two-lane highways in Idaho and Montana. Imperial Oil has applied … 1

• Huge loads to take detour on Third

  October 23, 2011 in City on Page B1 A series of superloads coming through Spokane will travel down a portion of Third Avenue during the next several months because they don’t fit under a bridge over Interstate 90. … 4

• Idaho won’t require escorts for oversized loads to mill

  September 28, 2011 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – The first oversized load hauled by the Nickel Bros. on scenic Highway 12 in north-central Idaho traveled without any state police escorts, and the Idaho Transportation Department now …

• ITD drops police escort rule for megaloads

  September 27, 2011 in Idaho The first Nickel Bros. megaload on scenic Highway 12 in north-central Idaho, which crossed into Montana late Monday night, traveled without any state police escorts – and the Idaho Transportation … 4

• Idaho issues permit for pulp mill megaload

  September 22, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – The Idaho Transportation Department announced late Wednesday that it had issued a permit for Nickel Bros. transportation company to take its first megaload across U.S. Highway 12 in …

• ITD lets Highway 12 megaload roll tonight

  September 21, 2011 in Idaho The Idaho Transportation Department announced shortly before 5 p.m. today that it had issued a permit for Nickel Bros. transportation company to take its first megaload across U.S. Highway 12 … 2

• Hearings denied on pulp mill megaloads

  September 17, 2011 in Idaho on Page B2 BOISE – Idaho’s transportation director refused Friday to allow hearings that could delay a new proposal to send megaloads of equipment across scenic U.S. Highway 12 in north-central Idaho. Several …

• ITD says no hearings on new megaloads proposal

  September 16, 2011 in Idaho Idaho’s transportation director refused Friday to allow hearings that could delay a new proposal to send megaloads of equipment across scenic U.S. Highway 12 in north-central Idaho, including several wide …

• Idaho OKs Exxon loads on Hwy. 12

  September 8, 2011 in Idaho on Page A7 BOISE — The Idaho Transportation Department issued a final order allowing Exxon Mobil to transport oversized oil equipment on U.S. Highway 12 through north central Idaho. ITD director Brian Ness … 1

• Company plans to resize, reroute megaloads through Spokane

  August 9, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil on Monday announced a new route for the company’s Canada-bound, Korean-made oil field equipment: right through Spokane on U.S. Highway 395 and Interstate 90. ExxonMobil’s initial plan to … 7

• Mini-megaloads could rumble through Spokane

  August 8, 2011 in Idaho Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil has announced that some of its controversial megaloads, instead of traveling a scenic route in Idaho, may instead rumble through Spokane on U.S. Highway 395 and I-90. 6

• Idaho megaload foes lose a round, vow more

  July 25, 2011 in Idaho Idaho hearing officer and retired district Judge Duff McKee today rejected a motion for reconsideration from opponents of megaloads of oil equipment traveling on U.S. Highway 12, but the opponents … 3

• Montana man dies on Highway 12 in Idaho

  July 15, 2011 in City, Idaho A Hamilton, Mont. man died today when his car went over an embankment into the Clearwater River in Idaho. 1

• Eye on Boise: Megaloads may take both route options

  July 3, 2011 in Idaho on Page B3 It’s possible that megaloads of oil equipment bound for the Kearl oil sands development in Canada could take both identified routes through Idaho – scenic U.S. Highway 12, where the …

• Ruling favors megaloads

  June 28, 2011 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – More than 200 megaloads of Korean-made oil equipment bound for Canada should be given the go-ahead to roll across northern Idaho’s scenic U.S. Highway 12, an Idaho state …

• Hearing officer recommends OK for megaloads

  June 27, 2011 in Idaho Retired Judge Duff McKee, a state hearing officer, has issued a 63-page ruling on the proposed Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil megaloads on Highway 12, recommending they be permitted. 2

• Loads permitted for CdA

  June 18, 2011 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – The Idaho Transportation Department has issued the first two permits for modified megaloads of oil field equipment to travel up U.S. Highway 95 to Coeur d’Alene, then turn …

• Modified megaloads to roll through CdA

  June 17, 2011 in Idaho The Idaho Transportation Department has issued the first two permits for modified megaloads of oil equipment to travel up U.S. Highway 95 from Lewiston to Coeur d’Alene, where they’ll turn … 4

• ITD board drops 10-minute rule for future megaloads

  June 17, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Idaho’s top transportation officials voted unanimously Thursday to eliminate the state’s 10-minute limit on traffic delays from oversized loads traveling Idaho roads, including megaloads. The Idaho Transportation Department … 1

• ITD eases traffic-delay rules for megaloads

  June 16, 2011 in Idaho The Idaho Transportation Board has voted unanimously to eliminate the 10-minute limit on traffic delays from oversized loads traveling Idaho roads, including giant megaloads. 6

• Mini-megaloads may enter CdA

  June 9, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page A1 After longer-than-expected delays on U.S. Highway 12 and opposition from area residents, huge oil equipment shipments traveling to Canada could be cut down in size and sent through Coeur d’Alene, … 6

• Eye on Boise: North Idaho representation on redistricting panel down

  June 5, 2011 in Idaho on Page B3 BOISE – Idaho’s bipartisan citizen redistricting commission is gearing up to draw new legislative and congressional district lines, and this time around there’ll be just one North Idaho member: businesswoman …

• Megaloads could skip U.S. on rail-truck Canada route

  May 26, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – What if giant loads of oil field equipment didn’t have to enter the United States to get from Asia to the Alberta oil sands project in Canada, and … 5

• Megaloads hearing wraps up; decision due in June

  May 11, 2011 in Idaho After three weeks, testimony in the contested case hearing on more than 200 proposed megaloads on U.S. Highway 12 wrapped up today with disputes over how much the giant loads … 1

• ITD, oil company happy with megaload test run

  May 7, 2011 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – A “test module” for proposed oversize loads on U.S. Highway 12 in north-central Idaho made it to Montana this week, but it took weeks to arrive and caused …

• Definition of ‘15-minute limit’ at issue

  May 7, 2011 in Idaho on Page B2 BOISE – A hearing over plans for hundreds of megaloads of oil equipment to travel through a scenic Idaho river canyon will stretch into a third week, after a full …

• ITD calls test megaload a ‘success’

  May 6, 2011 in Idaho A “test module” for proposed megaloads on U.S. Highway 12 in north-central Idaho that made it into Montana this week took weeks to arrive and caused a five-hour power outage … 3

• Megaloads hearing to enter third week

  May 6, 2011 in Idaho A contested-case hearing over plans for hundreds of giant megaloads of oil equipment to travel through a scenic Idaho river canyon will stretch into its third week next week, after … 2

• Idaho state police warns of ‘threats’ to megaloads

  April 30, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – The Idaho State Police believes there may be an attempt to disrupt megaload shipments on U.S. Highway 12 in north-central Idaho, an ISP official told a state hearing … 1

• ISP: ‘Intel’ suggests ‘threats’ to megaloads

  April 29, 2011 in Idaho The Idaho State Police has received “intel” about people possibly wanting to disrupt megaload shipments on U.S. Highway 12 in north-central Idaho, an ISP official told a state hearing officer … 4

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