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Keystone: Down the Line

A journey along the route of the controversial pipeline
  • Stories
    • Awaiting a new gusher: The Texas refineries at the end of the Keystone XL line
    • Pipeline’s path cuts across Indian Country and history
    • Pipeline spans tricky terrain: In Nebraska and beyond, issue crosses party lines and inspires unlikely allies
    • A driller’s unshakeable faith: Harold Hamm is an unabashed champion for the oil economy that made him rich
    • Oil and water: Scientists, activists at odds over routing pipeline through Ogallala Aquifer

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  • Videos
    • Pipeline opponents celebrate a reroute in Nebraska
    • Property rights and the pipeline
    • Plenty of work, but few places to live
    • 4,000 angus cattle, 3,000 acres of farm land, and nine people
    • Leaving Canada

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  • Montana
    • Montana senators (still) eager for pipeline
    • Story: Keystone XL finds champions in Montana
    • Abandoned Homestead
    • On the oil frontier: Pipeline would boost U.S.-Canada trade
    • Crossing Montana

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  • North Dakota
    • How Keystone factors into Romney’s energy plan
    • A driller’s unshakeable faith: Harold Hamm is an unabashed champion for the oil economy that made him rich
    • An update from Bakken
    • Around Bakken reservoir, an oil boom in full swing
    • Plenty of work, but few places to live

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  • South Dakota
    • Whose land is it? Ranchers fight back as TransCanada asserts eminent domain
    • Ranchers weigh consequences of Keystone XL
    • Property rights and the pipeline
    • A night in a log cabin along Interstate 90
    • In South Dakota, skirting the reservations

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  • Nebraska
    • TransCanada revises Nebraska route again
    • Nebraska: A red state with a ‘prairie populism streak’
    • Pipeline spans tricky terrain: In Nebraska and beyond, issue crosses party lines and inspires unlikely allies
    • Scenes from a pork and beans cookout near Spalding, Neb.
    • Oil and water: Scientists, activists at odds over routing pipeline through Ogallala Aquifer

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  • Oklahoma
    • Story: Keystone XL pipeline raises tribal concerns
    • Pipeline’s path cuts across Indian Country and history
    • Story: Bakken boom brings more billions and a chance to dabble in politics
    • A driller’s unshakeable faith: Harold Hamm is an unabashed champion for the oil economy that made him rich
    • A job just down the road

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  • Texas
    • Awaiting a new gusher: The Texas refineries at the end of the Keystone XL line
    • Story: A refiner awaits Keystone boom
    • Breaking a blockade in Texas
    • Texas judge rules in favor of TransCanada in eminent domain case
    • ‘We’re Texans. We own the land.’

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Extracting oil sands for the pipeline

By Whitney Shefte June 28, 2012


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