BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
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In BOOM, Tony Horwitz travels the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta toward refineries on the Gulf Coast. He moves through the boomtowns of North Dakota's Bakken oil fields, meeting roughnecks, landowners, activists and executives. Along the way he looks at the money, labor and environmental costs of the energy rush, and at the fierce debate it has stirred across the country. The book blends reporting with personal travel, asking what the pipeline says about America's appetite for oil and its future.
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