Keystone XL Oil Pipeline: A Symbolic Struggle Steeped In Fuzzy Math

This is the second of two articles about the controversy surrounding the development of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The first installment can be found here.

At the end of September, the mayor of tiny Atkinson, Neb., sat calmly waiting for an invasion. David Frederick's rural outpost of about 1,000 residents, set along the northeastern edge of Nebraska's Sandhills, was about to see its population briefly swelled by a phalanx of U.S. State Department officials, itinerant union laborers, ranchers, farmers, environmentalists and reporters.   Full Read