FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 19, 2025   OPPD Betrays North Omaha With Vote to Keep Burning Coal Bold’s Terrell McKinney and Jane Kleeb attended the Dec. 18 OPPD Board meeting and delivered a petition with 2,500+ signature from OPPD customers Omaha – In response to the Board of Omaha Public Power District’s approval of a […]

  Yesterday, Omahans showed up in force to demand the board members of the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) keep their promise to the community of North Omaha and shutter its polluting coal plant. We delivered passionate testimony about the negative health impacts the North Omaha community continues to suffer as OPPD burns dirty coal, […]

You know me best as a pipeline fighter. Now, I’m also becoming an energy builder. America is on the cusp of building out the next 100 years of energy, with wind and solar playing a major role. Rural America has the land needed to build wind and solar projects that can bring energy freedom to […]

Thanks to your action, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Tuesday voted to advance the Pipeline Safety Act update bill — without including dangerous language that would have criminalized landowner pipeline opposition, including refusing surveyors on your land. Thank you to everyone who made calls, and sent emails and signed letters […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 9, 2025 Bold Land Justice Director Terrell McKinney Blasts Nebraska AG Hilgers Lawsuit Targeting OPPD North Omaha Coal Plant Retirement Omaha – In response to Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers’ filing of a lawsuit today against Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) regarding its planned refueling and retirement of electric generation units […]

Sign the petition to OPPD: Close the North Omaha Coal Plant by 2026! RSVP: Register to attend the Tuesday, Nov. 18 North Omaha Community Meeting re: OPPD The North Omaha Coal Plant has polluted the air in our community for decades. While OPPD has promised to close it by 2026, the timeline has already been […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 6, 2025 New Film Exposes Dangers of CO2 Pipelines, Abuse of Eminent Domain to Seize Farmland for Risky Carbon Capture Boondoggle “UNDER PRESSURE: A Carbon Capture Land Grab Threatens Rural America” features victims and first responders from the Satartia, Mississippi CO2 pipeline rupture and Iowa landowners battling eminent domain for a […]

Jane Kleeb, founder and director of Bold Alliance, and Bold Nebraska — the group that helped create an unlikely alliance of farmers, ranchers, Tribal Nations and citizens to stop the risky Keystone XL pipeline, issued the following quote in response to the statement issued by President Trump on Feb. 24 regarding the abandoned project: “What […]

Authors: Don Johannsen, Shelli Meyer September 2024  Contact: Nebraska Easement Action Team Download and print a PDF copy of the “Nebraska Water Woes” report SUMMIT DEMANDS OUR WATER Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing a carbon capture project located at 4 ethanol plants.  Locally, statewide and regionally, this project threatens to deplete public water resources from […]

Omaha World-Herald: Jane Kleeb’s Nebraska group launches new clean energy model fueled by $3 million grant Julie Anderson, July 2, 2024 “A Nebraska group that got its start organizing rural alliances to fight oil pipelines now is seeking to forge similar partnerships to catalyze renewable energy projects — and harvest the economic benefits that can […]

Dear Omaha Public Power District Board, I am writing on behalf of Bold Alliance to express our position and concerns regarding the future of energy production in our community. We commend OPPD’s efforts to transition to cleaner energy sources and would like to provide our input to ensure that this transition is effective and beneficial […]

In the state of Nebraska, there is no state agency with authority over carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines, after the Nebraska Public Service Commission issued a statement saying it had no authority under state laws, leaving landowners, counties and first responders to come up with measures to protect property rights, themselves and the communities impacted.  The […]

Congrats to our Bold Founder Jane Kleeb for being named a recipient of the 2023 Climate Breakthrough Award, the largest global climate funding award for individuals. With this award, Jane is creating a new project called Energy Builders that will focus on a new economic model around clean energy in rural communities. For too long climate action […]

Bold Alliance published an updated version of our Nebraska Landowner and County Leader Guide to Carbon Pipeline Risks in Jan. 2025 The updated Guide includes: About the Nebraska Easement Action Team (NEAT) landowners’ legal co-op & FAQ Maps of proposed carbon pipeline routes in Nebraska Top 8 Reasons to Oppose Risky Carbon Pipelines “The Gassing […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 3, 2022 Contact: Mark Hefflinger, Bold Alliance, mark@boldalliance.org Landowners’ Radio Ad Exposes Dangers of CO2 Pipelines with 911 Call from 2020 Explosion Chilling audio exposes carbon pipeline dangers to human life, livestock, as well as CO2’s ability to stall vehicles, endanger first responders Hastings, NE — The Easement Action Teams LLC […]

View photos of the 2022 Ponca Corn Planting on Facebook.  We are excited to invite all of our friends to join us again this year on Sunday, October 16th for the Ninth Annual Ponca Sacred Corn Harvest. The annual gathering happens on Ponca Nation land and the Tanderup farm near Neligh, Nebraska — we are […]

Bold has released a new handbook, “Landowner and County Leader Guide to Carbon Pipeline Risks,” which will be available at upcoming meetings of the Nebraska Easement Action Team (NEAT), and is also available for download here. The guide contains information on the risks of carbon pipelines, and sample county ordinance language that can be presented […]

Thanks to the due diligence of an Iowa farmer, the shady partners and foreign investors of the proposed carbon pipeline companies seeking eminent domain across the Midwest are starting to be exposed. Dakota News Now broke the story, after a landowner uncovered the details and submitted them to the Iowa Utilities Board, one of the […]

Our panel discussion includes Dan Zegart — the journalist who covered the shocking details of the Satartia pipeline rupture that sent dozes to the hospital, and months later continued to cause health issues for the victims, in his story “The Gassing of Satartia.” The panel also features several first responders who were present on the […]

#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, […]

HISTORY OF SPILLS: Keystone Pipeline (23 SPILLS: 2010-2025) (Note: South Bow’s (formerly TC Energy, and TransCanada) “Keystone pipeline” is not to be confused with the proposed “Keystone XL” pipeline — a separate pipeline project that was defeated and cancelled two separate times under Pres. Obama and Pres. Biden. The Keystone pipeline was constructed in 2010 […]