What Hiking The Keystone XL Pipeline Taught Ken Ilgunas About Fossil Fuels And Climate Change




The State of Things show

Summary: This program originally aired on April 21, 2016. Ken Ilgunas was working as a dishwasher near the oil refineries of Alaska when his friend suggested they should hike the entire length of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. He immediately agreed, and a year later he started the journey from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas on foot. Along the way, he interviewed the people he met about the prospects of a pipeline running through mostly private land. His adventures and his interviews are