Part two: In South Dakota, a law could ban protests amid opposition from Republican ranchers, as many fear a ‘serious threat’ to water
Words by Oliver Laughland, photos and video by Laurence Mathieu-Léger
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- Life on the Keystone XL route: where opponents fear the ‘black snake’
Bret Clanton might not belong to the most obvious group of opponents to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. But when a survey crew from TransCanada arrived on his property eight years ago, the rancher and registered Republican – worried they were cattle thieves – says he called the sheriff’s department, and marched out to confront them.
He says the encounter changed his life, and set up a battle that would come to dominate his existence.
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Source: Guardian Climate Change