UPDATE:  Less than a year after this post was written, the NTSB has released a scathing report of Enbridge’s actions before the spill and during the clean-up.  Enbridge has received the largest fine ever given to a pipeline company for their negligence.  In the meantime, Michigan residents are still suffering and are struggling daily to […]

Monday, August 22, 2011Members of the Stop the Pipeline Tour spent Sunday night in a contractor’s campground in Ponca City, Oklahoma, home to a huge Conoco-Phillips refinery. Without a doubt many of the other RV’s parked in the campground were those of oilworkers and refinery employees, and it’s possible some of them may have helped […]

***UPDATE 1:10pm: TransCanada has just lifted condemnation on Doris and Sue’s property. This is a big win for landowners all along the Keystone XL route. If you’re a landowner along the route or know someone who is, please pass on the good news.*** From August 20th to September 2nd, I will be on the road […]

TransCanada ran into a brick wall in the form of the York County board of comissioners last Tuesday, July 26th. In another play to convince York County to give them carte-blanche freedom to use county roads for hauling pipeline materials and equipment, TransCanada reps unsuccessfully attempted to sway members of the board from taking a […]

Sure, Montana might be the Big Sky state, but the sky’s pretty big in Nebraska, too. And while they’ve got the Grizz in Missoula, we’ve got the Huskers in Lincoln. Although we don’t have mountains, we do have the Sandhills, and under those Sandhills is the Ogallala aquifer. One thing Nebraska and Montana definitely have […]

At the York County commissioners meeting on June 29, 2011, TransCanada asked the board to approve the use of county roads as haul routes for Keystone XL pipeline equipment and materials.  TransCanada reps also gave an “update” on the status of the pipeline, the only real item of substance being that they announced (and it […]

On behalf of 3,431 Nebraskans, we sent the following letter to Sec. Clinton as part of the comment period on the Supplemental Enviornmental Impact Statement (SEIS). The comment period is part of the process that Sec. Clinton and her staff undertake to determine if the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline is in our nation’s interest. […]