Ted Genoways writes for various publications, including Mother Jones, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine. His history of the tequila industry is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.
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I鈥檓 really sorry it happened and really glad I survived. Notes on the flabbergasting climax of an Alaska road trip that changed my life.
After 6 years mired in political turmoil, the controversial pipeline proposal could be concluded this year.
The crude that would feed the XL pipeline comes from a once pristine part of Alberta that now resembles mining operations on a sci-fi planet. At places like Fort McKay, home to First Nations people who've lived there for centuries, the money is great but the environmental and health impacts are exceedingly grim.
Thirty-five years ago, a national recession and high fuel prices led to the opening of the massive, controversial Trans-Alaska Pipeline System鈥攁nd a host of problems and pollution that came with it. Sound familiar?
They say you can't go home again—to the strange, remote, threatened South American jungle where your larger-than-life, field-scientist dad discovered an extremely rare, weird-looking species called Lophostoma schulzi. They're probably right. But we did it anyway.