Oil pipeline security
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.Inside the Nebraska State Patrol’s
training center that Thursday, the briefing painted an ominous picture. Radical
groups had threatened oil workers and vandalized equipment in Texas and
Oklahoma. Now, they might target pipeline construction in Nebraska. The
recommendation: under the law, it was possible to consider these people
potential terrorists.
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