April 20-22nd

Visit the FIRST ever Nebraska Prairie Chicken Festival, hosted by Calamus Outfitters and the Gracie Creek Landowners. Sandhills lovers shouldn't miss all this action near Burwell.

In July 2010, a pipeline carrying tarsands crude oil ruptured and spilled over 800,000 gallons of tarsands oil into the Kalamazoo River watershed in Michigan. The pipeline, owned by Canadian oil company Enbridge, was shut down, and the EPA immediately ordered Enbridge to clean up the spill.

A year later, on August 27th, 2011, I was in Michigan as part of the Stop the Pipeline Tour, and I went to the town of Marshall, where Talmadge creek was the source site of the rupture and spill. I met with citizens of the area, among them John Bolenbaugh, a former Enbridge employee who is now acting as a whistle-blower on what he feels is the company’s substandard job of cleaning up the oil.

Because current draughts and natural disasters have no effect on farmers and ranchers...

The US State Department's release of a flawed Environmental Impact Statement does not mean a final decision has been made on the risky Keystone XL tar sands pipeline--there is still a long way to go before it can be built.

In the executive summary of the EIS, the State Department makes it crystal clear that the state of Nebraska is the ONLY one responsible for the pipeline route. Gov. Heineman refuses to accept this fact and Nebraskans are watching to see if he will take his responsibility seriously, or if he will let the federal government and a foreign oil company decide how our state handles high pressure, risky oil pipelines.

There’s one question we are asking every Nebraskan, including all of our elected officials, this summer: Do you stand with Randy or do you stand with TransCanada?  

Click here to see the list of "I Stand with Randy" events.

Nebraskans are speaking out and taking action to help stop the TransCanada pipeline. 

This page (last updated 10/06/2011) is meant to be a resource with various reports and background about this critical topic. 

This is a copy of a national press release sent out to highlight a new report exploring the dangers of tar sands oil in pipelines compared to standard crude oil.

A report released today highlights the elevated risk of pipeline spills throughout the nation as a result of new corrosive oil products being increasingly delivered to the United States.  The report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Pipeline Safety Trust, National Wildlife Federation, and Sierra Club, Tar Sands Pipeline Safety Risks, shines a spotlight on diluted bitumen which is a raw form of tar sands oil that is significantly more acidic and corrosive than standard oil and requires increased heat and pressure to move through pipelines.