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July 21, 2011

Montana Judge Blocks Movement of Oil Equipment 
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A Montana judge has halted the transportation of massive oilfield
equipment across the state’s roads. Imperial Oil, a subsidiary of
Exxon Mobil, has been barred from using Montana’s scenic highways to
transport hundreds of tons of equipment to Alberta, Canada for a
controversial tar sands pipeline project. The National Wildlife
Federation, Missoula County and a number of conservation groups had
argued oil companies and the U.S. Department of Transportation had
failed to attain the necessary environmental clearances.



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