Author: Jane Kleeb

Stand Tall Against TransCanada

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Julia Trigg Crawford is a landowner in Texas fighting to protect her land from TransCanada’s risky export pipeline. She is battling them in public and in the courtroom. You can Stand Tall with Julia Trigg by sharing this video, donating to her legal fund, going to her Stand Tall concert on April 20th or writing […]
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Senate Keystone Vote is All Hat, No Cattle

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As the US Senate prepares to vote for a non-binding amendment on the Keystone XL pipeline, landowners and citizens urge politicians to think of the risks to families’ water rather than the rewards of campaign donations from big oil companies. The amendment offered by Sen. Hoeven in non-binding, which means it’s similar to a resolution […]
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Press Release: Lawsuit Moves Forward, Route Challenged

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The lawsuit against the State of Nebraska, filed by three landowners, is moving forward in the Lancaster County court with a full trial expected this summer. The outcome would affect the Keystone XL pipeline route and the power of eminent domain and any possible forced approval of the pipeline that Congress is currently considering. Yesterday, […]
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Pres. Obama Recognizes Export Pipeline Creates 35 Jobs

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Leaders from the Republican Party visited with President Obama and of course the Keystone XL pipeline came up in conversation. Various reports of what the President said or did not say started to hit blogs and newspapers and twitter. President Obama knows the reality of this pipeline means 35 permanent jobs and an export pipeline […]
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Paul Ryan Forces Keystone Approval: Stands with Saudi Arabia Instead of American Landowners

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Rep. Paul Ryan unveiled his budget, which forces approval of the Keystone XL pipeline by ignoring the basic fact that this is an export pipeline, headed to a refinery owned by Saudi Arabia, that will create only 35 permanent jobs. “On the one hand we want to send Rep. Ryan a big box of tarsands-free steaks from Nebraska thanking him since these types of politically-motivated moves helped […]
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Protect Nebraskans Vote: Defeat Voter-ID Bill

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The extreme-right American Legislative Exchange Council copy-cat bill (meaning not written by or for our state) on Voter-ID is getting its public hearing today at the Unicam. Sen. Janssen, who is also running for Governor, brought this bill up last year and it got killed because there is no proof of Voter-ID fraud in our […]
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The Real Sandhills…

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The US State Department issued an Environmental Study, one of the steps in the overall decision making process for President Obama. We describe the State Department process and our reaction, click here. The area of the Sandhills the State Department is using in their most recent study comes from a shrunken map formally submitted by […]
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State Dept. Releases Environmental Review

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The State Department released the next step in the review process today, a report called the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS). They are giving citizens 45 days to review and comment. The State Department will then issue a Final EIS. The State Department also must conduct what is called a National Interest Determination report and […]
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Setting Record Straight on AFL-CIO Pipeline Resolution

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In a resolution passed this week, the AFL-CIO Executive Council endorsed US pipelines, but not the Keystone XL, a risky export pipeline widely criticized by many union allies and ranchers and farmers along the proposed route. America’s Building Trades Unions has since misrepresented the AFL-CIO’s resolution saying the AFL-CIO has endorsed the controversial tar sands […]
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Barefaced, Beautiful and Recovered

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Eating disorders ravage individuals and families every day. They are the deadliest mental illnesses taking up to 25% of those affected. Recovery also happens. During this week of education and awareness of eating disorders, the Renfrew Center asks us all on 2/24/13 to take a picture of ourselves with no make-up. To love who we […]
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