In great news for local Omaha, Nebraska independent filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette, their documentary on urban agriculture in America, entitled Growing Cities, has been accepted to broadcast nationally on the Public Broadcasting System. The catch is that all the funding for the broadcast has to be raised by the filmmakers.  To do this, Dan […]

On Friday, June 27, the Cowboy and Indian Alliance hosted a celebration (“Buffalo Roast, TransCanada is Toast“) to mark the expiration on June 29 of TransCanada’s permit with the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission to build its proposed Keystone XL tarsands pipeline. The buffalo roast was held at the Rosebud Sioux Spirit Camp, a tipi […]

In a groundbreaking Nature Journal article, a group of economists, policy researchers, ecologists, and scientists make the case for a moratorium on new pipelines in North America until a “more coherent approach” can be developed to evaluate tar sands projects in the context of a broader energy and climate strategy, taking into account the long-term […]

Election Day: Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE WHY NEW ENERGY? The election season is here and we think it’s time for New Energy. Bold Nebraska partnered with landowners, citizens and leaders in our state to create the New Energy Voter PAC as a place pipeline fighters, new energy lovers and water warriors can get information […]

At a town hall meeting in Elk Creek on June 11, representatives of NioCorp, a Canada-based company, were optimistic that a Niobium deposit near the small southeast Nebraska town would be productive enough to attract the necessary investment to move forward with mining operations. Niobium, a rare mineral that is used to make steel stronger […]

  PHOTOS: Click here for photos of event, downloadable by members of the media (via Flickr).  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 30, 2014 Contact: Aldo Seoane, 605-319-8151 Jane Kleeb, jane@boldnebraska.org 402-705-3622 TransCanada In Trouble South Dakota Permit Expired, Landowners and Tribes Organized Rosebud Sioux Spirit Camp near Ideal, S.D. — TransCanada’s state permit from the South Dakota […]

On Friday, June 20, Nebraska landowners Randy Thompson, Suz Straka and Susan Dunavan filed their brief in the case now before the Nebraska Supreme Court challenging the state law (LB 1161) that fast-tracked the Keystone XL pipeline route approval process in Nebraska. In their brief, the landowners argue that LB 1161 is unconstitutional because it […]

Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb appeared (via phone) on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Thursday, June 19 to discuss the politics behind the largely symbolic vote in the Senate Energy Committee to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The bill has no chance of being taken up by the full Senate, which is controlled by the […]

That afternoon in November 2013, Sandhill cranes squawked and danced in the distance. Faith Spotted Eagle an elder of the Ihanktonwan Band of the Dakota/Nakota/Lakota Nation of South Dakota, pulled her shawl tighter against the wind and cold, then began to sing. She was gathered with other members of the Cowboy and Indian Alliance in […]

Randy became a symbol, a face, someone to represent every farmer, rancher and family that decided to be brave and stand up to a foreign corporation threatening to take their land and risk our water. Americans and Canadians in this new video show you just how brave and strong we are in the face of the tarsands […]