More than 50 landowners and Pipeline Fighters testified in support of LB 473 during a hearing before the Judiciary Committee on March 11, 2015. The Legislature did not move LB 473 forward during the 2015 session, but we will be working with Sen. Chambers and other allies to reintroduce a bill to stop eminent domain […]

For Immediate Release: January 22, 2015 Contact: Jane Kleeb, jane@boldnebraska.org, 402-705-3622 Nebraska Landowners Urge Sen. McConnell to Vote “No Eminent Domain for Private Gain” in Keystone XL Bill Lincoln, NE — A group of farmers and ranchers whose land would be put at risk by the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline sent a letter to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2014 Contact: Jane Kleeb, jane@boldnebraska.org, 402-705-3622 Bold Nebraska Response to Pres. Obama’s Pipeline Reference in State of the Union President Obama: “Let’s set our sights higher than a single oil pipeline” Lincoln, NE — Pres. Obama made a thinly-veiled reference to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline during his State […]

Today, foreign oil corporation TransCanada filed eminent domain condemnation proceedings against the Nebraska landowners who have stood up to the company’s threats and bullying and refuse to sell their land for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Below is a statement released by Bold Nebraska in response to TransCanada’s legal actions against landowners: TransCanada Uses Eminent […]

Update: 12/4/15 Judge Mark Kosizek on Friday dismissed the lawsuit brought by landowners in Holt County against TransCanada and the unconstitutional pipeline siting law passed by the Legislature as a handout to the foreign corporation, LB 1161. “The legislature broke this, so they must be the ones to fix it,” said Bold Nebraska director Jane […]

President Obama will give his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 8:00 p.m. CT. (Watch it live on TV or online here: http://whitehouse.gov/sotu) Will the president announce he is rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline during his speech? No one knows, but we can hope — and that’s why “I will reject […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 15, 2015 Contact: Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, (507) 412-7609 Gay Kingman, Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association, (605) 721-6168 Robert Flying Hawk, Yankton Sioux Chairman, (605) 384-3804 Tribal Nations Ask President Obama to Reject KXL and Request Emergency Meeting with Department of Interior Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association concerned about exclusion of […]

Memorandum January 15, 2015 To: Reporters, Columnists, and Editorial Boards From: Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, 350.org, Oil Change International, Bold Nebraska, Center for Biological Diversity, Rainforest Action Network, National Wildlife Federation, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Wica Agli Re: The Facts about Keystone XL’s Climate Impact ___________________________________________________________________ As the Senate debates amendments to legislation that […]

Editorial cartoonist Neal Obermeyer sent along this new cartoon that lampoons the Nebraska Supreme Court justices who refused to rule on the merits of the Keystone XL case, Thompson v. Heineman. A majority of justices on the Court (4 of 7) all agreed the pipeline routing and eminent domain law for Keystone XL (and all future […]

Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb appeared on MSNBC’s “NOW With Alex Wagner” on Tuesday, Jan. 13, to discuss the pending vote in the Senate on Keystone XL, President Obama’s promise to veto the bill, and how plummeting oil prices are affecting the debate. Watch the clip below: