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Stopping Keystone

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While the nation’s attention has been focused on Occupy Wall Street, Jane Mayer wonders whether the really important American political movement of 2011 has not actually been the Bill McKibben led movement to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. I wouldn’t go so far as to downplay the importance of OWS, but there’s no question that environmentalists led a fantastic campaign against all odds to stop a project that seemed in the bag. Its long-term future is unknown; McKibben thinks he’s won but the decision has only been postponed until after the election. Still, it’s hard to regain momentum on big projects when they’ve been halted. In any case, it’s a tremendous story that demonstrates how to play the inside game of Democratic politics, the protest game, and how to bring in local constituencies that normally oppose environmentalism but don’t want their own areas denigrated, in this case Republicans in Nebraska who feared the pollution of their groundwater.

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