Add your name to tell the Army Corps: Shut down the NWP12 “fast-track” permit for pipelines. The Army Corps of Engineers is currently reviewing “Nationwide Permit 12,” the special permit which since 2012 pipeline developers have taken advantage of to fast-track a series of major pipelines like Dakota Access (DAPL), Gulf Coast Pipeline, Keystone XL, […]

UPDATE: View photos of the 2022 Ponca Corn Planting on Facebook.  We and our hosts Helen and Art Tanderup and family are excited to be able to invite all of our friends to join us again this year on Saturday, April 30th for the Ninth Annual Planting of Sacred Ponca Corn, on Ponca Nation land […]

UPCOMING MEETINGS:  The Nebraska Easement Action Team (N.E.A.T.) and Bold Nebraska are hosting another round of landowner meetings, to share information and hear landowners’ concerns about eminent domain and proposed carbon pipeline projects. Meetings will be held in Wayne, Columbus, Norfolk and Grand Island, kicking off with another virtual meeting for landowners on Thursday, Feb. […]

#1: SAFETY In the event of a carbon pipeline rupture or leak, an explosive plume of CO2 gas can emerge, odorless and colorless, an asphyxiant that can suffocate all living beings, and prevent combustion vehicles like cars from starting to enable an escape to safety. At concentrations between 2-10%, CO2 can cause nausea, dizziness, headache, […]

Loading… Many landowners in Nebraska are just now finally able to celebrate — after over 10 years of fighting — the complete return of their land sought via eminent domain by TransCanada for the cancelled Keystone XL pipeline. But another threat is now bearing down on these same battle-weary farmers’ and ranchers’ land and livelihoods, […]

Biden Administration Takes Major Steps Forward to Build Back Fossil Free Final Build Back Better Legislative Framework Highlights Frontlines and Rural Communities; Advocates Call for End to Fossil Fuel Projects Following President Biden’s announcement of a final legislative framework for Build Back Better, frontline and rural communities are celebrating the prioritization of clean energy and […]

Landowners, Bold Nebraska Rejoice as TC Energy Abandons Eminent Domain Claims for Terminated Keystone XL Pipeline Landowners faced continued eminent domain litigation, despite revocation of presidential permit & project’s cancellation; Bold Nebraska vows to continue fighting until all easements relinquished and land returned Hastings, NE — Bold Nebraska and allied landowners with the Nebraska Easement […]

We are excited to announce that we are once again able to invite a limited number of friends to join us on Saturday, Oct. 16 for this year’s eighth annual harvest of sacred Ponca corn, planted on Ponca Nation land, on Art & Helen Tanderup’s family farm in the path of the now-cancelled Keystone XL […]

We’re excited to announce that our second Pipeline Fighters Hub Briefing — Recent Pipeline Fight Victories & “Unfinished Business” — will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 6:00 p.m. Central Time. Register now for the Pipeline Fighters Hub Briefing: Recent Pipeline Fight Victories & “Unfinished Business” on Wednesday, Sept. 29. The discussion will feature […]

Bold is offering residents of the Mead, Nebraska community whose water has been potentially impacted by contaminants from the AltEn ethanol plant pollution a free countertop water filter, to help protect their families from any possible health issues that could now be in their home tap water. [Read more about the AltEn ethanol plant and […]

Attorneys for Bold Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska sent a letter to the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) on June 14, asking the Commissioners to review their Nov. 17, 2017 approval of a route and eminent domain authority for TC Energy’s Keystone XL pipeline — which was formally terminated by the company on […]

TransCanada is still suing Nebraskans for their land. Donate now to support their fight. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2021 Nebraska Landowners, Tribal Nations, Rejoice as TC Energy Says Keystone XL Pipeline is Terminated Landowners still face ongoing eminent domain litigation with easements not relinquished by TC Energy; Pipeline Fighters, Water Protectors vow to continue until all equipment […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 25, 2021 Pipeline Fighters Hub Launches to Connect Frontline Communities Pipeline Fighters Hub is a resource for frontline communities, media, and elected officials to turn the page on fossil fuel projects that risk the land, water, and climate. Hastings, NE — The Bold Alliance, a national nonprofit best known for its […]

Again in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, a much smaller crowd than usual gathered for this year’s eighth annual planting of sacred Ponca corn — on Ponca Nation land situated with the Tanderup farm near Neligh, Nebraska — that crosses the Ponca Trail of Tears and proposed path of the Keystone XL pipeline. Joining […]

Keystone XL was the first Trump pipeline that President Biden rejected, but it should not be the last. President Biden boldly rejected KXL within a few hours of his inauguration. That was a testament to the unlikely alliance of farmers, ranchers, Tribal Nations, and climate advocates that stood together for over a decade. We now […]

HISTORY OF SPILLS: TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline (21 SPILLS: 2010-19) (Note: TransCanada’s “Keystone pipeline” is not to be confused with the company’s proposed “Keystone XL” pipeline — a separate pipeline project that has not yet started construction, and whose future is still very much in doubt. The original Keystone pipeline carries up to 600,000 barrels per […]

Your action is needed now to make your voice heard to Nebraska State Senators considering two resolutions: LR 421: Interim Study of Property Rights Issues (Eminent Domain) LR 159: Appoint Special Committee to Investigate the Mead Environmental Disaster In this year’s Nebraska legislative session, Bold supported Sen. Bostar’s LB 1186, a common-sense bill intended to protect […]