"Obviously we apologize for any inconvenience that that might have caused."

Photo: KYLE MILLS/Lewiston Tribune

The megaload that a Canadian oil company says will validate its plan to send many more up U.S. Highway 12 in Idaho and Montana got off to a rough start.

The wide load hit a guy wire alongside the highway near Orofino, Idaho, early Tuesday, setting off a sequence of events that led to an hours-long power outage in some 1,300 area homes and businesses, and forcing a highway closure of some 60 minutes.

LINK (Via: The Missoulian)

Comments

[Teeg]

Geez, that's weird. They said it would go off without a hitch.

I'm sure the liberal media elite and the wacky environmentalists put that guy wire there to trip them up.

[OIL sands]

Canadian oil company?

"Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil's test module, bound eventually for the Kearl Oil Sands of Alberta"

Exxon (US company) controls Imperial (CDN company) and the other big oil player using the road is ConocoPhillips (US company)

Just feeding the big US oil monster.

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Next stop Yellow Stone National Park...