Environmental, Landowner Groups Respond to TransCanada’s Filing of NAFTA Suit Over Keystone XL Rejection This weekend, TransCanada officially moved forward with a lawsuit against the United States under NAFTA, asking for $15 billion in damages because of President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Under NAFTA, this suit, an attempt to charge […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 15, 2016 Contact: Jane Kleeb, Bold Alliance 402-705-3622, jane@boldnebraska.org Eminent Domain Advocates to Protest at Trump Rally Atlanta, GA – Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is making a stop in Atlanta, Georgia today following this morning’s private fundraiser hosted by the state’s Governor Nathan Deal and Senator David Perdue. Coincidentally, an unlikely alliance […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2016 Contact: Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska 402-705-3622, jane@boldnebraska.org Nebraska farmer leaders in Keystone XL battle call for 100% clean energy for all Massive “crop art” installation carves clean energy message into 80-acre cornfield Neligh, Nebraska — Nebraska farmers and ranchers, who made international headlines standing up to the Keystone XL pipeline, joined […]

For Immediate Release: April 18, 2016 Contact: Jane Kleeb, jane@boldnebraska.org, 402-705-3622 David Turnbull, david@priceofoil.org, 202-316-3499 Andy Pearson, andy@mn350.org, 612-600-5951 Winona LaDuke, winonaladuke@honorearth.org, 218-280-1720 Lindsay Meiman, lindsay@350.org, 347-460-9082 Jonathon Berman, jonathon.berman@sierraclub.org, 202-297-7533 Dallas Goldtooth, dallas@ienearth.org, 708-515-6158 Aldo Seoane, aldoseoane@gmail.com, 605-319-8151 Whistleblower: Bad Welds Will Cause More Tar Sands Pipeline Spills According to a TransCanada whistleblower, the […]

Sign the Petition Calling for TransCanada to Shut Down Keystone I and Investigate Pipeline Integrity As citizens have testified over the last decade, TransCanada’s leak detection system is not fool proof–this weekend when the pipeline spilled, a landowner called in the oil sheen. TransCanada’s leak detection system which they bragged about all the time failed. […]

Last week, InsideClimate News ran an in-depth piece on eminent domain for private gain. When the article ran, neither Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton stated a position on eminent domain for private gain. We decided to ask them about the issue, and we got an answer from both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns…this is a […]

Bold Nebraska Joins Environmental, Landowner, Indigenous Groups to Urge Congress: Learn From Keystone XL, Oppose TPP Trade Deal  Lincoln — Today, 40 leading environmental groups including the Indigenous Environmental Network, Bold Nebraska, Friends of the Earth, 350.org, and the Sierra Club sent a letter urging Congress to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. The letter, sent […]

Seal the Deal The contracts that TransCanada forces on landowners mandates there cannot be any trees or permanent structures on the pipeline route, so the #NOKXL Clean Energy Barn built by volunteers with donations on land directly inside the pipeline route — and the donated trees we are planting with landowners who live on the pipeline route […]

Donald Trump stood on the debate stage, with all his famous gusto, and proclaimed he loves eminent domain. Trump continued to say, “Keystone XL could not be built without it.” Well Mr. Trump, that is the point—our founding fathers never intended private corporations to use eminent domain for their private gain. While hugging eminent domain […]

Dear fellow Pipeline Fighters, Sometimes words seem inadequate when it comes to expressing your true feelings about certain things, and that seems to be the case as I try to express my gratitude to all of you who have been involved in the fight to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. I hope you join me […]