The US State Department issued an Environmental Study, one of the steps in the overall decision making process for President Obama. We describe the State Department process and our reaction, click here. The area of the Sandhills the State Department is using in their most recent study comes from a shrunken map formally submitted by […]

The State Department released the next step in the review process today, a report called the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS). They are giving citizens 45 days to review and comment. The State Department will then issue a Final EIS. The State Department also must conduct what is called a National Interest Determination report and […]

In a resolution passed this week, the AFL-CIO Executive Council endorsed US pipelines, but not the Keystone XL, a risky export pipeline widely criticized by many union allies and ranchers and farmers along the proposed route. America’s Building Trades Unions has since misrepresented the AFL-CIO’s resolution saying the AFL-CIO has endorsed the controversial tar sands […]

Eating disorders ravage individuals and families every day. They are the deadliest mental illnesses taking up to 25% of those affected. Recovery also happens. During this week of education and awareness of eating disorders, the Renfrew Center asks us all on 2/24/13 to take a picture of ourselves with no make-up. To love who we […]

Update, 2/27/13: LIUNA was unsuccessful in getting the AFL-CIO council to endorse Keystone XL. They tried for months (some would say years) to get all unions that are part of the AFL-CIO to support the Keystone XL. Instead, the AFL-CIO council sided with words and policies that Pres. Obama supports, made in the USA energy […]

After refusing to co-sponsor a bill to reauthorize the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Senator Deb Fischer reversed course and voted for the bill Tuesday. The bill passed 78-22. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), had 62 co-sponsors from both parties—including every female member of the Senate other […]

The Laborers union loves to state President Obama will approve the pipeline because of union support. What they often leave out is the basic fact that unions are not a uniform group of Americans. In Nebraska, the Laborers work hand and hand with AFP, a Koch-funded group that seeks to end unions. Today, the National […]

The DEQ has given Gov. Heineman the final pipeline route review report. If Gov. Heineman approves this route, TransCanada gets immediate eminent domain authority without having a federal permit. Also, Gov. Heineman is moving forward under the authority from a law–LB 1161–that is actively being challenged in court and where citizens won the first round […]

NY Times journalists detained in handcuffs. 80 year-old woman lied to about eminent domain and forced to sign land contract. Politicians wined and dined with millions of dollars. Landowners forced to sign gag orders. Local officials told they can’t pass local laws limiting TransCanada powers. Farmers arrested for protecting their land. Citizens pepper sprayed. Update […]

TransCanada is messing with the wrong Texas grandmom. Eleanor Fairchild, great-grandmother and wife to a retired oil scientist, has stood strong against the Keystone XL pipeline because of the way TransCanada treats landowners and because tarsands is not traditional crude oil. Tarsands is an extreme and risky form of energy headed to the export market. […]