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ISP Staff Issue Delays CdA Megaload

A megaload bound for the Kearl Oil Sands in Canada via Moscow and Coeur d'Alene won't be leaving Monday as previously scheduled. The section of an ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil processing plant is waiting for its trip at the Port of Lewiston, where it was barged from Korea. "They're working on staffing issues with (the Idaho State Police) and ISP is not going to have the staffing needed for that," said Adam Rush, a spokesman for the Idaho Transportation Department. Two ISP troopers working overtime paid for by ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil will accompany the 23-foot-wide, 208-foot-tall shipment that takes up two lanes of traffic/Lewiston Tribune. More here. (AP file photo)

Question: Do you ever get the impression that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing in terms of Idaho oversight of the oil company megaloads?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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