BY NADIA MOHARIB
Wild Horses Couldn’t Keep the Pipeline Company Away
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rnold McKee still lives where he always has. “As a teenager, I grew up riding all these hills, training horses,” he says from his ranch about 18 miles south of
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Oyen, AB. “Every hill and coulee and rock and buffalo wallow, I know it.” And it’s the only place he wants to be. But in recent years, the land he loves and feels driven to protect has seen no end of needless horror play out, because of the disruptive Key-
stone pipeline on his property. “It was just a nightmare,” he says. “It still is.” For McKee, the nightmare mostly comes down to the welfare of his horses. In 1994, after many years of struggling to make it happen, McKee man-
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But with the help of CAEPLA, a rancher was able to protect his land and continue his horse rescue breeding program
