You know you hit the big time when John Stewart covers the issue you are working on during the Daily Show. Keystone XL is a risky tarsands pipeline that cuts through the Heartland so Canada can get their carbon-intensive oil on the export market. They also use eminent domain to take farmers and ranchers land […]

  It’s time to take action against a Congress that, just like TransCanada, thinks it can run roughshod over farmers, ranchers and tribes. Here’s the rundown of what is happening in Washington, DC right now on the pipeline and what we need you to do. The House will vote on a KXL approval bill on […]

Pipeline fighters showed up to vote yesterday. Years of actions, shoulder to shoulder, taught us one simple lesson: we never give up, we never back down, we keep moving forward together. Millions of Americans who stand up every day to protect our land and water from risky tarsands will not cower in the corner because […]

Update 6:52am, Nov. 5: Ashford now has 76, 354 votes to Terry’s 72,222. We will now wait to see if Terry concedes the race after a good night’s rest? Douglas County Election Commission said they will have another vote update on Friday, which is mail-in ballots and maybe some provisional ballots. We are waiting to see if the […]

Halloween is right around the corner (so is Election Day Nov. 4!). A fellow pipeline fighter, Carolyn, emailed with a great idea of carving pumpkins with a #nokxl message. Some might remember one of our favorite actions pushing Gov. Heineman to support better pipeline bills at the state level when we carved 91 pumpkins to […]

Rep. Lee Terry, using taxpayer money, issued a “playlist” for an upcoming concert called “Harvest the Hope” featuring Willie Nelson and Neil Young —who stand with farmers, ranchers and tribes protecting the Heartland from the TransCanada’s foreign tarsands pipeline. “Hopefully Lee Terry’s newly found song writing career will enable him to pay for his nice […]

Last week, national members of the GOP issued a report using taxpayer money, attacking Bold Nebraska. We are in the ring with our gloves on so we expect (and welcome) criticism from the other side of the Keystone XL pipeline issue. What we did not expect and think is outrageous is for Sen. Fischer and […]

Nebraska educator, and fellow Pipeline Fighter, Amy Himes attended the National Education Association (NEA) annual meeting in Denver, CO over the July 4th weekend. She introduced a new business item #82 that read in part “the NEA shall support the development of clean energy education in our schools.” The item passed on July 6, 2014 in […]

In a groundbreaking Nature Journal article, a group of economists, policy researchers, ecologists, and scientists make the case for a moratorium on new pipelines in North America until a “more coherent approach” can be developed to evaluate tar sands projects in the context of a broader energy and climate strategy, taking into account the long-term […]

Randy became a symbol, a face, someone to represent every farmer, rancher and family that decided to be brave and stand up to a foreign corporation threatening to take their land and risk our water. Americans and Canadians in this new video show you just how brave and strong we are in the face of the tarsands […]