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April 7, 2020

Border projects spur rural coronavirus fears

  • TC Energy plans to build 11 worker camps along the Keystone XL pipeline's route — in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska.
    • By MATTHEW BROWN, STEPHEN GROVES and CEDAR ATTANASIO
    Associated Press

    BILLINGS, Mont. — Major construction projects moving forward along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico are raising fears that the coronavirus could race through temporary camps and workers could spread it to nearby rural communities that would not be able to handle an outbreak.

    Despite a clampdown on people's movements in much of the country, groups of workers travel every day from camps in New Mexico to build President Donald Trump's border wall.


     
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