Bold Nebraska and allied groups have been working with landowners and citizens for over two years making sure our voices are heard on the concerns over the pipeline. Our goal is to stop the TransCanada pipeline. 

We do not think tarsands fits into America's energy policy, the route is too risky for our water supply and landowner rights are being trampled on for the benefit of a foreign export pipeline.

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. 4^th 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.

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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."  

O’Neill  - May 9, 4-7 p.m. at the O’Neill Community Center, 501 S. 4^th St.

Neligh – May 10, 4-7 p.m. at the Neligh-Oakdale High School Gym, 600 J St.

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.

Routes unveiled...all of the routes still cross the Sandhills and still cross the Ogallala Aquifer. TransCanada's pipeline still carries toxic tarsands and still carries too much risk to our families and communities.

All of the routes are unacceptable and show once again we can not trust TransCanada.

Update: 4/5, 7:30am: LB 1161, which is now a brand new bill, gets a "second" round of debate today at 10am. This is a brand new bill, this is not an "ammendment" and it CANCELS out the two laws passed during the Special Session. Speaker Flood's ammendment was apparently not acceptable to the pipeline supports or TransCanada since Sen. Smith hours later had "his" own version. Citizens and landonwers have no chance to understand this version of the bill. They are doing this on the Thursday before everyone wants to leave Lincoln by noon so they can spend the Easter holiday with their families. This is not what democracy looks like.

Update, 4/3, 2pm: Speaker Flood has now offered an amendment that would require TransCanada to first apply for their Federal permit and then would allow the DEQ to review the pipeline. Any company that has not applied for a Federal permit would have to go through the PSC. Flood's bill, according to some who have reviewed it, essentially erases the two laws put in place during the special session. Any new bill/amendments state senators put on the floor at this point will have ZERO public input or accountability since there will be no hearings on the bill.