During the pipeline's construction, the feisty local farmers say they protested the oil company by periodically blockading the muddy road that runs through their village.

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The paved road ended abruptly, with a steep dirt path leading to a bumpy, muddy road that work crews had carved into the bottom of a mountain so rescue teams could get in.

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We got into his black Audi sedan and climbed a road up into the hills, where we turned onto a rutted muddy track lined with cornfields and brick farmhouses.

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