On Terror Alert: Inside Big Oil’s Fight to Build Keystone
Workers inspect a weld on the joint between two sections of pipe on a Gulf Coast Project pipeline in Atoka, Oklahoma.
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The intelligence was alarming: homegrown extremists were said to be targeting the Keystone XL pipeline.
It was April 2013, and environmentalists had joined together in opposition to the 1,700-mile (2,735-kilometer) Keystone system, which connects the oil sands of Alberta to refineries in the U.S.