FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 29, 2016 Contact: Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska, 402-705-3622, jane@boldnebraska.org Amy Schaffer, Bold Nebraska, amy@boldnebraska.org Bold Nebraska to Stand in Court With Landowners Still Fighting TransCanada Over Keystone XL TransCanada appeal of award of attorneys’ fees to be heard in Wilber (Nov. 28), Neligh (Nov. 30), Wahoo (Dec. 5), and Springview (Feb. […]

Across the country allies are pulling together, just like we did on Keystone XL, to help stop the risky and unnecessary Dakota Access pipeline. Below is an update that groups such as IEN, 350, CREDO Action, Honor the Earth, Sierra Club, Oil Change and Bold pulled together to help make sure advocates and press understand the process […]

>> Sign the Bakken Pipeline Pledge of Resistance << FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 29, 2016 Contact: Ed Fallon, Bold Iowa: 515-238-6404, ed@boldiowa.org Jane Kleeb, Bold Alliance: 402-705-3622, jane@boldnebraska.org Bold Iowa Responds to Dakota Access Motion for Restraining Order Against Bold Iowa, Director Ed Fallon Aimed at Silencing Peaceful Pipeline Protests Pipeline company seeks to preempt […]

Donate to keep Bold going strong! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2016 Contact: Jane Kleeb, 402-705-3622, jane@boldnebraska.org Nebraska Judge Orders TransCanada to Pay Legal Costs of Keystone XL Landowners TransCanada ordered to pay $8,844.21 to each of 19 Holt County landowners; claims in other counties may push total payments near $500,000 Holt County, NE — […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 15, 2016 Contact: Jane Kleeb, Bold Alliance 402-705-3622, jane@boldnebraska.org Eminent Domain Advocates to Protest at Trump Rally Atlanta, GA – Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is making a stop in Atlanta, Georgia today following this morning’s private fundraiser hosted by the state’s Governor Nathan Deal and Senator David Perdue. Coincidentally, an unlikely alliance […]

Pipeline company Enbridge has been working to make Wisconsin a super-highway for tarsands. While making plans to expand their octopus of pipelines that crosses farmland and lakes, Enbridge was also secretly working with the Wisconsin state legislature to expand eminent domain authority. Landowners are organizing against Enbridge. Many of the landowners already have FOUR pipelines […]

Last week, InsideClimate News ran an in-depth piece on eminent domain for private gain. When the article ran, neither Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton stated a position on eminent domain for private gain. We decided to ask them about the issue, and we got an answer from both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns…this is a […]

Donald Trump stood on the debate stage, with all his famous gusto, and proclaimed he loves eminent domain. Trump continued to say, “Keystone XL could not be built without it.” Well Mr. Trump, that is the point—our founding fathers never intended private corporations to use eminent domain for their private gain. While hugging eminent domain […]

Support our work? Become a Bold Member. The 2016 session of the Nebraska Unicameral adjourned Sine Die on April 20. Bold Nebraska worked with partner organizations including Nebraskans for Civic Reform, Nebraska Appleseed, Common Cause Nebraska, Center for Rural Affairs, Nebraska Wildlife Federation, Nebraska Farmers Union, ACLU of Nebraska and Nebraska Sierra Club to bring you informed coverage of bills under consideration and actions to […]

>>Chip in $20 to Support Landowners’ Legal Fight<< Landowners Opening Brief Filed in Nebraska Keystone XL Battle Omaha, NE — Lawyers for Nebraska landowners submitted written arguments in Court on Monday, August 31st. They contend a 2012 Nebraska law unconstitutionally authorizes TransCanada, a foreign pipeline company, to use eminent domain and to take their land. […]