A convoy to support the oil and gas industry, scheduled to leave Olds for Calgary Dec. 30 was cancelled, due to poor road conditions, organizers said.
The event was planned by Olds resident Adrien Woods (a.k.a. Morgan Gibson) on Facebook. The idea was to meet up with other vehicles along the way.
Several area residents posted their support.
They were scheduled to leave the Co-op Cardlock near the Highway 27 overpass Dec. 30 between 10:30 and 11 a.m.
Woods said he and others got the idea because friends of his were involved in the one in Nisku, a community just south of Edmonton. More than 1,000 trucks rolled through Nisku in support of the oil industry on Dec. 19.
"Oil and gas kind of affects my job and our lives so I wanted to do something. I know nobody's done anything around here, so I figured, 'why not?'" Woods said during an interview with the Albertan.
Woods said he wanted to do something in support of the oil industry as it struggles through low oil prices and lack of pipeline capacity because the oil industry has a big impact on his industry.
He drives for a gravel contractor.
"We help build lease roads," he said. "People who buy our product are landscape people. They work in the oil industry so their money goes towards decorating their yards and they kind of contact us for specialty gravel."
Woods said anyone from outside Olds and area — like the Didsbury or Carstairs areas for example — were welcome to join the convoy as it rolled down Highway 2.
He said the plan once the convoy reached Calgary was to join with truckers there and hold a kind of parade along Stoney Trail and Deerfoot Trail before meeting at a Calgary truck stop.
