Oil Sands Effort Turns on a Fight Over a Road

New York Times: As U.S. Highway 12 hugs the serpentine banks of the Clearwater and Lochsa Rivers here, road signs bear the silhouettes of the 19th-century explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, with Mr. Lewis pointing off into the distance. He is not pointing the way for big oil companies, says Lin Laughy, whose gravel driveway abuts the road. But to Mr. Laughy's dismay, international oil companies see this meandering, backcountry route as a road to riches. They are angling to use U.S. ......

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