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January 2015 New Energy Roundup

Ben Gotschall
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  Energy Barn Update  In December, the Build Our Energy Barn built in the proposed Keystone Export pipeline path had its lowest generation month of 2014, but it still generated more energy for Nebraskans than the pipeline ever would.  At 116 kilowatt-hours, the barn generated enough energy to drive about 5 laps at the Monaco […]
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Bold Nebraska Submits Discovery Requests to TransCanada in South Dakota Keystone XL Permit Process

On Tuesday, Bold Nebraska submitted its first round of interrogatories as part of the discovery process in the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission permitting process for the Keystone XL pipeline. The interrogatories, directed toward pipeline operator TransCanada, address a number of important points, evidence and facts surrounding the proposed pipeline project.  Bold’s most relevant questions […]
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Election Day Live Blog (Updates on Terry Race)

Jane Kleeb
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Update 6:52am, Nov. 5: Ashford now has 76, 354 votes to Terry’s 72,222. We will now wait to see if Terry concedes the race after a good night’s rest? Douglas County Election Commission said they will have another vote update on Friday, which is mail-in ballots and maybe some provisional ballots. We are waiting to see if the […]
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Halloween and Eday Fun: Print, Carve, March, Vote

Jane Kleeb
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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 […]
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Bold Nebraska and the Cowboy Indian Alliance

Mark Hefflinger
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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 […]
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New Energy Roundup: October 2014

Ben Gotschall
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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 […]
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Sandhills Ranchers Challenge NPPD Powerline Project

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Ranchers in the Sandhills of Central Nebraska are challenging the route of a high-capacity transmission power line project that has been proposed by Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD). They are currently intervening in the Nebraska Power Review Board (PRB) process, arguing that the line would negatively impact the fragile sandhills soils and ecosystem, on which […]
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New Energy Roundup: September 2014

Ben Gotschall
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Energy Barn Update: For the month of September 2014, the New Energy Barn built in the path of the Keystone Export pipeline route in York County generated 294 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which is enough power to charge the average mobile phone for 9 years.  To date, the barn has generated 3 megawatt-hours of electricity onto […]
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Time’s Up Terry: Stop Wasting Taxpayer Money on Silly Playlists

Jane Kleeb
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Rep. Lee Terry, using taxpayer money, issued a “playlist” for an upcoming concert called “Harvest the Hope” featuring Willie Nelson and Neil Young —who stand with farmers, ranchers and tribes protecting the Heartland from the TransCanada’s foreign tarsands pipeline. “Hopefully Lee Terry’s newly found song writing career will enable him to pay for his nice […]
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Help Save West Virginia Water

Ben Gotschall
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While we in Nebraska fight to keep the Keystone Export pipeline out of the Nebraska Sandhills and the Ogallala aquifer, we enjoy a relatively safe and abundant water supply nonetheless–that’s what we’re fighting for.  Elsewhere in the U.S., however, oil spills like the Enbridge pipeline disaster in the Kalamazoo river watershed in Michigan that happened […]
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