Yesterday, landowners won a huge victory when a Holt County, Nebraska District Court judge halted TransCanada’s attempt to use eminent domain to take their land for the Keystone XL export pipeline. Many thanks go out to landowners’ attorneys Dave Domina and Brian Jorde for their excellent work fighting against eminent domain for private gain. What […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 Contact: Jane Kleeb, 402-705-3622, jane@boldnebraska.org Rep. Ashford Again Sides With Foreign Oil Corp. Over Nebraska Farmers and Ranchers Votes a second time for bill to approve Keystone XL pipeline Omaha, NE — Rep. Brad Ashford (D-Omaha) today voted for a second time to approve the risky Keystone XL tarsands export pipeline, […]

(Click here to share the image above on Facebook.) Farmers and ranchers in Nebraska are being dragged into court right now by a foreign corporation armed with the power of eminent domain to seize their land against their will to build the risky Keystone XL pipeline. The legal concept of “eminent domain” allows for taking […]

Come support landowners fighting TransCanada’s eminent domain for KXL in court.  WHAT: Support landowners fighting eminent domain for Keystone XL WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 12 at 1:00 p.m. WHERE: Holt County Courthouse, 204 North 4th Street, O’Neill, NE 68763 The group of landowners who recently filed suit against TransCanada seeking an injunction to halt their eminent domain seizure proceedings will see […]

Two bills will be heard in front of the Nebraska legislature’s Agriculture Committee on Tuesday, Feb. 10.  These bills would pave the way for meatpacker ownership of livestock and allow continued corporate takeover of agriculture in Nebraska by allowing Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO’s) to avoid the normal restrictions of the county planning and zoning […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has publicly posted a letter it submitted to the State Department with new comments on the agency’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for Keystone XL. EPA was also separately among eight federal agencies that had until yesterday (Feb. 2) to weigh in on the State Dept.’s “national interest determination” for […]