Tuesday marks Election Day for various primary races. The most notable is of course the GOP US Senate race. Various state senate (Unicam), Regent and energy board (OPPD, NPPD, etc.) races will shape up with Tuesday's vote, which is why the primaries are critical for you to exercise your right to vote.
Bold is not publishing a primary election voter guide. We will publish a voter guide for the general election and post that sometime in early Fall. We do want to get some thoughts out there on the primaries and some of the key races. Feel free to comment, send us edits, add your own feedback on other races...but please go vote!
Starting this week, the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will host a series of meetings along the pipeline route where citizens and landowners can see the detailed maps of this new proposed route as well as ask questions to DEQ staff.
O’Neill - May 9, 4-7 p.m. at the O’Neill Community Center, 501 S. 4th St.
Our concerns for our land and water remain. Landowners and citizens continue to speak out regarding the new proposed route of TransCanada's tarsands pipeline that still crosses the Sandhills, sandy soil and the Ogallala Aquifer.
In response to breaking news that TransCanada will resubmit their federal application to the US State Department as early as Friday...
"The fundamental facts remain, Americans are being asked to put clean water at risk and Nebraskans are being asked to give up their property rights for an extreme form of energy that will add nothing to our energy security. We are subsidizing this extreme form of energy to boot with over 1 billion of our tax payer dollars used to retrofit a Saudi-owned refinery for their tarsands headed straight to the export market. A transparent process at the federal level will show TransCanada's risky pipeline is not in our national interest. A transparent process at the state level will show a route that crosses the Ogallala Aquifer is too risky, just as Governor Heineman said to the President when he asked Obama to deny the pipeline permit."
Sen. Coash, once viewed as a moderate even progressive Republican (he said he supported universal health care for example), is not backing away from hosting an event with Ted Nugent.
While Nebraska Watchdog reports Sen. Coash took to Facebook to say Ted Nugent can no longer speak on his behalf, the senator has yet to say he will no longer hold any fundraisers or any other type of events with Ted Nugent.
You might have recently heard about a group called ALEC in the news. Groups in Nebraska have been working on trying to get more transparency around this group. Today, we sent an email to State Senators asking them to end their ALEC memberships.
Over the coming weeks we will post blogs and more information about ALEC and the actions any state senators take to end their ties.
Nebraska's DEQ just announced a series of public meetings where citizens and landowners can see detailed maps and learn about next steps in the pipeline route certification process.
We want to make sure Nebraskans know that TransCanada has NOT submitted a new federal permit application yet. The Keystone XL pipeline approval is still very much up in the air. President Obama just this week reinforced that a full review must happen before any decision is made.
We created this new video to honor Earth Day and to be used at a conference in NY next week to tell our collective story. But most of all we created this video to say we are not done fighting and will not give up til we stop the TransCanada pipeline.
Representative Lee Terry (R-NE-2) may be a fan of the “Keystone rodeo,” but we know that only a clown could think that Nebraska can afford the risky tarsands pipeline that, if approved, could cross some our state’s most sensitive lands and our main water source, the Ogallala Aquifer.
Representative Terry and his Big Oil buddies are doing the bidding of TransCanada without caring a lick about the best interests of Nebraska landowners and citizens.
DEQ Meetings on Pipeline Route Starting this week, the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will host a series of meetings along the pipeline ...
Coash Must End Ties to Nugent Sen. Coash, once viewed as a moderate even progressive Republican (he said he supported universal health care for example), ...
