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Keystone: Down the Line

A journey along the route of the controversial pipeline
  • Canada
    • End of public comment on the Keystone XL
    • Story: The start of the line for Keystone XL
    • Constructing the Keystone B
    • Leaving Canada
    • The No. 1 Scoop

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  • Montana
    • Montana senators (still) eager for pipeline
    • Story: Keystone XL finds champions in Montana
    • Abandoned Homestead
    • Crossing Montana
    • All signs point to …

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  • North Dakota
    • An update from Bakken
    • Around Bakken reservoir, an oil boom in full swing
    • School’s out
    • You can’t make this borscht at home, folks
    • Wanted: Toughnecks

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  • South Dakota
    • Ranchers weigh consequences of Keystone XL
    • A night in a log cabin along Interstate 90
    • In South Dakota, skirting the reservations

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  • Nebraska
    • Story: Keystone pipeline may threaten aquifer
    • Pipeline opponents celebrate a reroute in Nebraska
    • Road Memories
    • Crowd pleaser
    • Nebraska cookout and a cowboy poet

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  • Kansas
    • Obama, El Dorado and the Kansas oil boom
    • The legacy of William Allen White

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  • Oklahoma
    • Story: Bakken boom brings more billions and a chance to dabble in politics
    • Standing Bear and the Trail of Tears

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  • Texas

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Extracting oil sands for the pipeline

By Whitney Shefte June 28, 2012


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