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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.

Carol Marsh, 71, was arrested early Wednesday morning, January 22, for sitting down on Reserve Street and blocking the Omega Morgan megaload shipment.

A megaload shipment that began its trip through Montana on Sunday night has now passed through the city of Missoula.

A huge truckload of oil refinery equipment has finally entered Montana after a four-day, protest-filled journey along U.S. Highway 12 in northern Idaho.

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.