Yesterday, Speaker Flood and a few other state senators met with TransCanada to discuss issues around the pipeline. Instead of bowing to TransCanada and their arrogant attitude towards basic protections of our land and water, Speaker Flood should be gathering the votes for a special session and calling in state and national experts on both […]

Big news happened in Nebraska in our hopes to get some common sense oil pipeline regulations on the books. State Senator Annette Dubas released a press statement and a bill that would finally give the Public Service Commission the authority to route oil pipelines in our state, versus TransCanada telling us where a massive pipe […]

Americans want a level playing field with Big Oil. We want to know before any major oil project crosses our land and water that it has been studied with an independent and unbiased eye. A major conflict of interest and serious questions about the validity of the Environmental Impact Statement for the TransCanada Keystone XL […]

This morning a fellow Nebraskan named George called me.  He told me he is calling Bold Nebraska because he does not do computers, but has a message he wants to get out on the internet.  He is worried about pipeline.  I told him we definitely do computers and would post his message for him. He […]

The Dalai Lama, State Senators Haar and Avery and each of you have all taken action this week to stop the risky TransCanada pipeline. President Obama received a letter signed by fellow Nobel Laureates urging him to deny the permit to TransCanada. The letter, authored by the Dalai Lama, Bishop Tutu along with seven others, […]

A proud group of Nebraskans joined over 3,000 fellow “pipeline fighters” urging President Obama to deny TransCanada’s permit request for the Keystone XL pipeline.   The event, called “Tar Sands Action: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline,” was scheduled for August 20th-September 3rd in our nation’s capitol. Like Governor Heineman, citizens will urge President Obama to […]

The US State Department’s release of a flawed Environmental Impact Statement does not mean a final decision has been made on the risky Keystone XL tar sands pipeline–there is still a long way to go before it can be built. In the executive summary of the EIS, the State Department makes it crystal clear that the […]

Update, 5:45pm, August 16: Jon Bruning personally dropped off some sleeping bags today at the Bold office. Actions matter. We also added a new drop-off location in Omaha where you can drop-off a sleeping bag. And, we created an Amazon wish-list so you can just buy one from your computer and ship it to our […]

Ever wondered what the worst case scenario would be for the Ogallala Aquifer or Platte River if the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline gets approved? A professor from the University of Nebraska, Dr. John Stansbury wrote a new report answering that question titled: “Analysis of Frequency, Magnitude and Consequence of Worst-Case spills from the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline”  […]

The article below appeared in Yale 360, an international online magazine covering the environment.  The author, Jim Robbins is a veteran journalist based in Helena, Montana. He has written for theNew York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, and numerous other publications. His fifth book, The Forgotten Forest, about the poorly understood role of trees in the environment, will be published […]