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A high-plains showdown over the Dakota Access pipeline

Protesters protect a security contractor from other protesters on Sept. 3

ON THE SURFACE, THE DAKOTA ACCESS pipeline looks like any of the dozens of oil and gas projects approved in recent years. The 1,200-mile project is designed to transport hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of crude from vast reserves in North Dakota’s Williston Basin southeast across the northern Midwest into Illinois. But in recent weeks, opposition to the

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