Bloomberg: Bob Allpress describes himself as a redneck Republican. Standing on the pasture behind his Nebraska home, the burly former Marine Corps sergeant with a Fu Manchu mustache explains what made him an environmental activist.
The Keystone XL pipeline, which TransCanada Corp. (TRP) wants to build to bring Albertas oil sands to refineries on the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico, would cut across the 900 acres near Naper, Nebraska, that Allpresss grandfather acquired by homestead in 1886. He is vowing...