While TransCanada is debating whether to call off the controversial Keystone XL pipeline or proceed with it, opponents are growing in their organized efforts.
Bold Nebraska is one such group. Founded in 2010, it now says TransCanada faces three years or more of court challenges to the recent ruling by the Nebraska Public Service Commission to deny its request for a different route.
Bold Nebraska describes itself as a group that “began organizing landowners and communities who have grave concerns about a foreign company threatening to take their land by eminent domain for a continent-spanning death-funnel pipeline that would pump toxic tarsands and benzene beneath their farms and ranches threatening the Ogalalla acquire we all depend on.”
“We’ll continue to support Nebraska landowners in their ongoing fight to stop KXL in state courts and move forward with allies on our federal lawsuit challenging trump’s federal permit approval of KXL,” promised a recent newsletter.
In its efforts, Bold also assisted in the growth of another group, Nebraska Easement Action Team (N.E.A.T.) of landowners. It is also helping with another project, the Solar XL project of 2018 “aiming to place two new solar installations with Nebraska farming families living in the path of Keystone XL—including one on land inside the new ‘Mainline Alternative’ route.”
Bold didn’t stop there in the past year. It expanded its network of support for local Pipeline Fighters fighting risky fossil fuel projects in Appalachia, Louisiana and Wisconsin.
Bold Alliance organizer and landowner Carolyn Reilly helped organize local opposition in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina to the proposed Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines.
In Louisiana, Bold organized frontline communities it said were “threatened’ by Energy Transfer Partners’ proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline.
And in Wisconsin, Bold supported local organizers in 2017 who are working to get landowners united in opposition to Enbridge’s Line 66 tarsands pipeline.
