Watch Neil Young perform “Who’s Gonna Stand Up” at Harvest the Hope: Election Day is Tuesday, November 4. Show your Pipeline Fighter spirit at the polls! Use the New Energy Voter Guide to know who stands up for our land and water when you head to the voting booth. TAKE ACTION: Pipeline Fighters everywhere: Send […]

UPDATE 10/28/14: Despite TransCanada’s lawyers’ best efforts to try to block Bold Nebraska and Nebraska landowners from acting as intervenors in the new Keystone XL permit process, the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission just voted unanimously to grant us all full party status! Citizens and Tribal Nations Stand Up Against TransCanada’s Latest Attempts to Silence […]

Pipeline Fighters to Protest Mitt Romney Appearance in Hastings with Tea Party Senate Candidate Ben Sasse Mitt “I will build that pipeline if I have to myself” Romney can meet face-to-face with farmers, ranchers in the path of risky tarsands pipeline Hastings, Nebraska — Pipeline Fighters will attend the public rally in Hastings on Monday […]

Halloween is right around the corner (so is Election Day Nov. 4!). A fellow pipeline fighter, Carolyn, emailed with a great idea of carving pumpkins with a #nokxl message. Some might remember one of our favorite actions pushing Gov. Heineman to support better pipeline bills at the state level when we carved 91 pumpkins to […]

For Immediate Release: October 20, 2014                     Contact: Jane Kleeb, Jane@boldnebraska.org, 402-705-3622  TransCanada Attacks Citizen Group, Lies About Clean Energy Barn TransCanada issued a false statement in an attempt to discredit Jane Kleeb and the citizen-led Bold Nebraska, a group that has successfully stopped Keystone XL in its tracks. Jane Kleeb was […]

Editor’s note: Political cartoonist Neal Obermeyer created this panel about the controversy over AP History curriculum in Nebraska schools. You can reach Neal at neal.obermeyer@gmail.com or on Twitter: @nealobermeyer

Over the past year, grassroots nonprofit group Bold Nebraska and the Cowboy Indian Alliance have staged dozens of actions in opposition to TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tarsands pipeline, and in support of clean energy and candidates who will bring much-needed New Energy to our state. CLICK HERE TO CAST YOUR VOTE FOR “THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE […]

For Immediate Release: October 17, 2014 Contact: Jane Kleeb, Jane@boldnebraska.org, 402-705-3622 Mark Westlund, mark.westlund@sierraclub.org, 415-977-5719 Luísa Abbott Galvão, labbottgalvao@foe.org, 202-222-0716 Josh Mogerman, jmogerman@nrdc.org, 312-651-7909 TransCanada Rewarded for Reckless Tar Sands Development with Bizarre Climate Action Award In press release that reads like satire, TransCanada announced yesterday that they’ve been “recognized as world leader for corporate […]

  In the spring of 2014, families from the Ponca Nation collaborated with Bold Nebraska and Nebraska farmer Art Tanderup — whose land crosses both the proposed path of the Keystone XL pipeline, and the historic Ponca Trail of Tears — to hand-plant several acres of sacred Ponca corn on the tribe’s ancestral homeland in […]

Energy Barn Update: In September, the Energy Barn in the path of the proposed Keystone Export pipeline in York County generated 283 kilowatt-hours of electricity onto Nebraska’s public power grid.  That’s enough power to light the Eiffel Tower for 84 minutes.  To date, the Energy Barn has generated 3.29 megawatt-hours of electricity, which is enough […]