TransCanada / TC Energy just submitted an application for permits to build a “mancamp” to house hundreds of workers for its proposed Keystone XL pipeline near the town of Plainview, Nebraska. Add your name to the petition urging Plainview elected officials to reject TransCanada’s KXL mancamp in Nebraska. The city of Plainview (pop. 1,195) in […]

Dear fellow Pipeline Fighter, Sometimes candidates are born out of movements. People who are meant to lead in elected positions on the very issues they advocated for in the streets. This election cycle, Bold wants to make sure you know about some Pipeline Fighters who are now running for office. Christa Yoakum is running for […]

Bold Alliance Leads New Federal Challenge to Keystone XL Over Faulty Review by BLM Construction through water crossings remains blocked; groups challenge approval for construction on federal land based on insufficient reviews Great Falls, MT — Conservation and landowner groups filed a new lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s approval of the Keystone XL tar […]

In Yet Another Blow to Keystone XL, Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Revive Key Water Crossing Permit Court Rejects Push from Trump Admin to Allow Construction of Keystone XL Through Waterways Amid Appeal Washington, DC — Today, the United States Supreme Court declined a request from TC Energy and the Trump administration to allow Keystone […]

Bold Nebraska / Bold Alliance on Thursday, June 4, 2020 joined in a letter with environmental groups standing in solidarity with the demands of the Movement for Black Lives: “As organizations striving for climate justice and environmental protection, we cannot be silent in the face of the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, […]

Environmental, Landowner, and Indigenous Groups Urge Court to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline Washington, DC — A coalition of environmental, landowner, and Indigenous groups filed an amicus brief today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in support of the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes and other affected Tribes, […]

For Immediate Release: Monday, May 11, 2020 Federal Court Upholds Ruling Blocking Construction of Keystone XL and Other Oil and Gas Pipelines Court blocks the use of Nationwide Permit 12 for pipeline water crossings Great Falls, MT — A federal judge today largely upheld an April 15 ruling vacating Nationwide Permit 12, a key water […]

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a much smaller crowd than usual gathered for this year’s seventh annual planting of sacred Ponca corn — on Ponca Nation land situated with the Tanderup farm near Neligh, Nebraska — that crosses the Ponca Trail of Tears and proposed path of the Keystone XL pipeline. Joining hosts Art and […]

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Yet Again, Federal Court Invalidates Key Permit for Keystone XL Court blocks the use of Nationwide Permit 12 for pipeline water crossings Great Falls, MT — A federal judge ruled today (see ruling below) that the US Army Corps of Engineers violated the law when it approved Nationwide […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 3, 2020   CANCEL KXL: Promise to Protect Coalition Calls on Montana Gov. Bullock, TC Energy to Cancel Keystone XL Pipeline Activity Due to Coronavirus Public Health Threat During month of nationwide lockdown and critical “social distancing,” TC Energy rushing to send hundreds of out-of-state workers into rural, Tribal communities and […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 31, 2020 Contacts: Mark Hefflinger, Bold Nebraska, +1 323 972 5192, mark@boldnebraska.org Jared Margolis, Center for Biological Diversity, +1 802 310 4054, jmargolis@biologicaldiversity.org Collin Rees, Oil Change International, +1 308 293 3159, collin@priceofoil.org Gabby Brown, Sierra Club, 914-261-4626, gabby.brown@sierraclub.org   Indigenous, Landowner, Environmental, and Conservation Groups Demand TC Energy Immediately Halt […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 24, 2020 CANCEL KXL: Rural & Tribal Communities Call on TC Energy to Cancel Keystone XL Pipeline Activity Due to Coronavirus Public Health Threat As coronavirus forces social distancing and community lockdowns, TC Energy/TransCanada endangers thousands of workers and rural communities unequipped to handle public health threat, in addition to increased […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 19, 2020 Contacts: Faith Spotted Eagle, Brave Heart Society, (605) 481-0416, eagletrax@hotmail.com Frank James, Dakota Rural Action, (605) 697-5204 ext. 240, fejames@dakotarural.org Lewis GrassRope, Wiconi Un Tipi, (605) 208-0880 “Standing Strong and Protecting” Tiny House Tour of Communities on Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline Route Postponed Due to Coronavirus Health Threat As […]

Conservation, Environmental and Landowners’ Groups Argue in Federal Court Keystone XL Pipeline Approval by Trump Administration Was Illegal Approval violated the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act Great Falls, MT — Conservation, environmental and landowners groups argued in federal court in Montana today that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ […]

A public hearing is set for Friday, Feb. 28 for the Holt County Board (1:30 p.m.) to consider TransCanada’s application (see below) for a KXL construction permit, which has already been recommended for DENIAL by a 7-1 vote of the county zoning board. At the hearing, the Holt County Board of Supervisors will permit testimony […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 23, 2020 Keystone XL Still Faces Court Challenges from Tribal Nations, Landowners & Environmental Groups Lincoln, NE – Despite TC Energy’s recent submission to a federal court of a proposed pre-construction and construction schedule for its yet-to-be-greenlighted Keystone XL pipeline, there still remain many obstacles before any construction on the controversial […]

Sign the petition: 21 spills in 10 years – Shut down TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline. Since it was constructed in 2010, TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline has spilled twenty-one (21) times, releasing a total of almost 1 million gallons of toxic tarsands and diluent chemicals onto America’s farmland and into its waterways. [1] A company with this kind […]

Conservation, Landowners Groups File Opening Brief in Legal Challenge to Keystone XL Pipeline Illegal pipeline approval violated the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act Great Falls, MT— Conservation and landowners groups filed their opening brief today (embedded below) in their federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s illegal approval of the […]

HISTORY OF SPILLS: TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline (21 SPILLS: 2010-19) (Note: TransCanada’s “Keystone pipeline” is not to be confused with the company’s proposed “Keystone XL” pipeline — a separate pipeline project that has not yet started construction, and whose future is still very much in doubt. The original Keystone pipeline carries up to 600,000 barrels per […]

You may have already heard, but TransCanada just filed new eminent domain claims in court against 90 Nebraska family farmers and ranchers — including my family — who refuse to give up our land for this foreign corporation’s Keystone XL tarsands export pipeline. [1] TransCanada has been bullying my family and other Nebraska landowners for […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 23, 2019 Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Law that Ignores Landowners’ Property Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty in Flawed Decision on Keystone XL Pipeline Route Despite the flawed state decision, three federal lawsuit challenges to pipeline project continue to proceed Lincoln, NE – Nebraska landowners and Tribal Nations said they would continue to fight […]

Canadian pipeline company TransCanada (now called “TC Energy”) bribed a Nebraska County Commissioner, offering a “bonus” of $49,000 if the Commissioner “worked well with them” to see that its controversial proposed Keystone XL pipeline project was ushered through to completion. The details of the bribe are laid out in a “conflict of interest” disclosure letter […]

UPDATED: NoKXL PLEDGE TAKERS — THANK YOU! Sen. Elizabeth Warren (8/13/19)  Gov. Jay Inslee (8/13/19) Sen. Bernie Sanders (8/14/19) Tom Steyer (8/15/19) Sec. Julian Castro (8/19/19) Mayor Bill de Blasio (8/19/19) Sen. Cory Booker (8/27/19) Admiral Joe Sestak (8/28/19) Mayor Pete Buttigieg (8/28/19) Sen. Kamala Harris (8/29/19) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 13, 2019 Letter Urges […]

UPDATE (May 18, 2020): V.P. Joe Biden announces he will rescind TransCanada’s cross-border presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline if he is elected! Thank you Joe!!! VP Biden’s campaign tells me a Biden administration would rescind Trump’s Keystone XL cross-border permit. That would effectively kill the pipeline. https://t.co/lsmqrQSRrx — Ben Lefebvre (@bjlefebvre) May 18, […]

Landowners who live on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route in Holt County, Nebraska, and who are opposed to the project recently attended a County Board meeting to provide their elected Commissioners an update on the status of the controversial project. Some of these landowners have now been actively voicing their opposition to the pipeline […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2019 Conservation Groups Launch New Legal Challenges to Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Trump administration violated National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act by approving controversial tar sands pipeline Great Falls, MT— Conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 12, 2019 Giant Message to Trump Etched into Nebraska Cornfield: “No 45” + “No KXL” World’s largest crop art message to Trump unveiled Wednesday in 33-acre field on the Tanderup farm was created by volunteers with artist John Quigley Neligh, NE — A gigantic message to President Trump, etched into a […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 6, 2019 Appeals Court Throws Out Case Blocking Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline, Relying on New Permit Issued by President Trump SAN FRANCISCO (June 6, 2019) –The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a legal challenge to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, ruling the case was no longer active due […]

Nebraska landowners on the proposed Keystone XL route who have not signed easement contracts to sell their land for the pipeline received letters in February, threatening that TransCanada would take them to court and sue to take their land via eminent domain if they did not “respond to this offer before April 2” — even […]

Friends, We are witnessing the aftermath of devastating floods here in Nebraska, where 65 counties and 74 cities have declared a state of emergency — no doubt a climate change-fueled combination of a blizzard followed by rapidly melting snow and torrential rains. [1] The storms have claimed several human lives, along with hundreds of thousands […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 15, 2019 TransCanada Loses Again in Latest Attempt to Begin Keystone XL Pipeline Construction Ruling Deals Yet Another Setback to Proposed Dirty Tar Sands Project San Francisco, CA — Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied yet another attempt by TransCanada to begin construction on its […]

Judge Denies TransCanada’s Request for Most Pre-Construction Work on Keystone XL Pipeline Ruling Deals Yet Another Setback to Proposed Dirty Fossil Fuel Project Great Falls, MT — A federal court ruling today further delayed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline by reaffirming that TransCanada cannot conduct any construction activity on the controversial tar sands pipeline and […]

(Ron and Jeanne Crumly on their land on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route in Nebraska. (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei) Add your name: Support the Green New Deal Today, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey are introducing the Green New Deal resolution in Congress. [1] The Green New Deal seeks to protect farmers and […]

TransCanada has applied for water use permits with the South Dakota Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources for its proposed Keystone XL pipeline — to divert from rivers to proposed “mancamps” for workers, and other industrial uses associated with construction and operation, like horizontal drilling, pump station construction, dust mitigation and hydrostatic testing. Members of […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  January 17, 2019 LUX Center for the Arts Presents: First Friday with “Dementia Americana,” a group show by Cannupa Hanska Luger, Marty Two Bulls Jr., and Micheal Two Bulls and “Life is a Balloon” by Louis LaBudda. Opening Reception: Friday, February 1, 2019, 5-8 p.m. (Facebook event: https://facebook.com/events/2250024795247049/) LINCOLN, Neb. — LUX Center for the Arts […]

Judge Denies TransCanada Request for Pre-Construction Work on Keystone XL Pipeline Ruling Deals Yet Another Setback to Proposed Dirty Fossil Fuel Project Great Falls, MT — Today, a federal judge reaffirmed that TransCanada cannot conduct any pre-construction field activities on its proposed Keystone XL pipeline. This ruling means that construction on the controversial tar sands […]

Have you witnessed TransCanada pipeline employees or contractors operating in Nebraska, South Dakota or Montana — in violation of a federal judge’s order prohibiting any construction or “pre-construction” activity? Provide as many details as you’re able on the form below, and we’ll use this form to document the alleged violation and pass along to the […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 8, 2018 In Blow to Pipeline Project, Court Invalidates Trump Administration’s Keystone XL Environmental Review, Blocks Construction GREAT FALLS, Mont.– A federal judge ruled today that the Trump administration violated bedrock U.S. environmental laws when approving a federal permit for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project. The judge blocked […]

A very interesting but little-noticed fact emerged during Canadian pipeline operator and proposed Keystone XL pipeline builder TransCanada’s second quarter earnings call with reporters and analysts on August 2nd, when company CEO Russ Girling relayed that the company had obtained easements from 62% of landowners in Nebraska on the proposed Keystone XL “Mainline Alternative” route: […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 15, 2018 Contact: NRDC: Jake Thompson, (202) 289-2387, jthompson@nrdc.org Bold Alliance: Mark Hefflinger, (323) 972-5192, mark@boldalliance.org Sierra Club: Gabby Brown, (914) 261-4626, gabby.brown@sierraclub.org Center for Biological Diversity: Jared Margolis, (802) 310-4054, jmargolis@biologicaldiversity.org Friends of the Earth: Patrick Davis, (202) 222-0744, pdavis@foe.org Northern Plains Resource Council: Dustin Ogdin, (406) 228-1154, dustin@northernplains.org Federal […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 13, 2018 Contact: Mark Hefflinger, Bold Nebraska, mark@boldnebraska.org Dani Heffernan, 350.org, 305-992-1544, dani@350.org Third Nebraska Family Installs Solar in the Path of Keystone XL Pipeline Crowdfunding continues for “Solar XL” project to place additional installations inside the KXL route in Nebraska and South Dakota Naper, NE — Ranchers Bob & Nancy […]

Landowners submitted their final reply brief in their appeal before the Nebraska Supreme Court that challenges the state Public Service Commission’s approval of a “Mainline Alternative” route for the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline. The brief argues that the approval should be vacated on a number of grounds, such as that TransCanada failed to actually […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 11, 2018 Contact: Mark Hefflinger, Bold Nebraska, mark@boldnebraska.org Larry Wright, Jr., Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, 402-540-7122, ldwrightjr@gmail.com In Historic First, Nebraska Farmer Returns Land to Ponca Tribe Along “Trail of Tears” June 10 ceremony near Neligh, NE included Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Chairman Larry Wright Jr., Nebraska landowner Art Tanderup, Ponca Nation of Oklahoma […]

“I don’t think it’s a big deal.” —Dan Watermeier, on accepting campaign contributions from TransCanada, backer of proposed Keystone XL pipeline project that may come back up for a vote before the Public Service Commission (Associated Press, May 29, 2018) Dan Watermeier, the former state legislator and now Republican candidate for Nebraska Public Service Commission, […]

The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and Yankton Sioux Tribe, along with intervenors including Sierra Club, and the Nebraska Public Service Commission’s (PSC) attorney have submitted appellee briefs in the appeal before the Nebraska Supreme Court of the PSC’s approval of a “Mainline Alternative” route for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline. All of the new briefs […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2018 Contact: NRDC: Jake Thompson, (202) 289-2387, jthompson@nrdc.org Bold Alliance: Mark Hefflinger, mark@boldalliance.org Sierra Club: Gabby Brown, (202) 495-3051, gabby.brown@sierraclub.org Center for Biological Diversity: Jared Margolis, (802) 310-4054, jmargolis@biologicaldiversity.org Friends of the Earth: Patrick Davis, (202) 222-0744, pdavis@foe.org Northern Plains Resource Council: Dustin Odgin, (406) 228-1154, dustin@northernplains.org   Groups Challenge […]

Internal EPA records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by the Sierra Club have revealed that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt met in secret with Union Pacific executives in Omaha during his October 2017 trip to Nebraska, to discuss the company’s deregulatory wishlist. The email exchange between U.P. and EPA officials lists the attendees of […]

Plaintiffs (including Bold Alliance) on Friday asked a federal judge for a summary judgment vacating the approval of the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline, in their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s rubber-stamp of a cross-border permit for the proposed pipeline. The Trump administration “has provided no convincing explanation for the State Department’s failure to justify its […]

The Nebraska landowners challenging the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) approval of the “Mainline Alternative Route” for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline this week submitted their opening brief with the Nebraska Supreme Court (embedded below) — arguing that the PSC erred in approving a route for which TransCanada did not actually file an application, and which […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2018 Jane Kleeb of Bold Alliance Responds to Silence From TransCanada on Final Investment Decision for Keystone XL Project Lincoln, NE — Bold Alliance president Jane Kleeb issued the following statement in response to silence from TransCanada today towards its investors, regarding a final investment decision on whether or not […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2018 Contact Mark Hefflinger, Bold Alliance, mark@boldalliance.org Yianni Varonis, Greenpeace USA, 330-806-3599, yvaronis@greenpeace.org In Advance of TransCanada Earnings Call, Bold and Allied Groups Release Investor Briefing on Keystone XL Obstacles Washington, D.C. – Today, Bold Nebraska along with allied groups Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace UK, Oil Change International (OCI), the National […]

We’ve just learned that Troy Thompson, son of Randy “Stand With Randy” Thompson and part of a Pipeline Fighter family since the beginning in Nebraska, was struck by a car on Sunday while walking his dog in Lincoln, and is currently in the hospital in critical condition at Bryan West Campus. Thoughts and prayers from […]

If you’re a NEAT member and TransCanada calls, you just say, “I’m with NEAT, call Dave Domina.” We are hearing reports that this week TransCanada has begun contacting landowners on the proposed Keystone XL “Mainline Alternative” route in Nebraska, to schedule meetings and conduct surveys on their land. The Nebraska Easement Action Team (N.E.A.T.), an […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 18, 2018 Contact: Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska, 402-705-3622, jane@boldnebraska.org Mark Hefflinger, Bold Nebraska, mark@boldnebraska.org Bold Nebraska Statement on TransCanada Announcement of Shipper Commitments for Keystone XL Pipeline Nebraska Supreme Court still to hear landowners’ legal challenge to Public Service Commission approval of “Mainline Alternative” route this fall Lincoln — After TransCanada […]

(Bold Nebraska billboard in Lincoln on 10th & L St.) Did you see our billboard? Bold Nebraska has purchased a digital billboard in downtown Lincoln to call out Gov. Pete Ricketts for failing to protect Nebraska’s highest property taxpayers — farmers and ranchers — from eminent domain for private gain and TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. […]

On Dec. 27, Nebraska landowners challenging TransCanada’s permit application seeking the power of eminent domain to build the Keystone XL pipeline through the state filed an appeal (embedded below) of the Nebraska Public Service Commission’s decision to approve the “Mainline Alternative” pipeline route. The filing from landowners’ attorneys with Domina Law Group triggers a process that […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 19, 2017 Contact: Mark Hefflinger, mark@boldnebraska.org Landowners, Pipeline Fighters Vow to Continue Fight After Nebraska Public Service Commission Denies Motions to Reconsider Ruling on Keystone XL Permit Application Lincoln — Landowners and Pipeline Fighters vowed to continue their fight on Tuesday after the Nebraska Public Service Commission denied a series of […]

TransCanada’s Keystone 1 pipeline (constructed in 2008) spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tarsands onto a South Dakota farm on Nov. 16, 2017. Recent drone photos (courtesy Greenpeace) show the current spill clean-up effort that now includes hundreds of workers and dozens of vehicles and equipment trailers on the spill site around the clock, where […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, December 4, 2017 Groups Call on Trump Administration to Evaluate New Keystone XL Route Pipeline Route Approved in Nebraska Poses New Risks to Wildlife, Requires Legal Review Washington, DC — A coalition of environmental groups filed letters today urging the Trump administration to analyze the environmental impacts of the approved route […]

Click to zoom in on the map below, or open in a new window and zoom in to see if your property may be on the pipeline route (LINK: http://bit.ly/kxlmap) Are you a landowner in Nebraska (Antelope, Madison, Platte, Colfax, Butler, Seward, Saline, Jefferson) who has been contacted by TransCanada land agents for the proposed […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 22, 2017 Federal Lawsuit Challenging Keystone XL Approval Will Move Forward Court Stops Trump Administration From Flouting Environmental Laws Great Falls, MT — Today, a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit brought by environmental and landowner groups over the Trump administration’s approval of the cross-border permit for the Keystone XL tar […]

LISTEN: Keystone XL Decision Day Telepresser for media: Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska founder Brian Jorde, attorney for Nebraska landowners (Domina Law Group) Art Tanderup, Nebraska landowner on Keystone XL route Chairman Larry Wright Jr., Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Eriel Deranger, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Bill McKibben, co-founder 350.org Michael Brune, Sierra Club Lorne Stockman, market analyst, […]

On Nov. 3, 2017, Canadian TV broadcaster CBC’s “The Fifth Estate” program aired a 45-minute, in-depth investigative report: “Keystone XL: The Money Pipeline” on the lobbying and dark money being directed to promote and grease the wheels for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline. HIGHLIGHTS Bold Nebraska’s Jane Kleeb describes our FOIA request that exposed TransCanada’s presentation to […]

THANK YOU to all the Pipeline Fighters and Water Protectors who joined the March to Give Keystone XL the Boot on Sunday, Aug. 6th in Lincoln — and everyone who made their voices heard at the four public hearings and in their written comments we delivered to the Nebraska Public Service Commission. Together with our […]