News Release: Tribes, Landowners, and Climate Groups Expand Campaign to Build Solar Inside Keystone XL Pipeline RouteĬrowdfunding will support solar panel installations in South Dakota and Nebraska ahead of TransCanada’s plans for clear-cutting this Fall This entry was posted in Nebraska / Midwest News and tagged 350.org, Bold Nebraska, Brave Heart Society, Dakota Rural Action, Omaha World Herald, solar XL, Third Solar XL Installation on Augby Helen Deffenbacher. “The court saw through the sham fast-track environmental review that TransCanada and the State Department were trying to shove past Nebraska landowners and Tribal Nations,” Mark Hefflinger of Bold Alliance said in a statement. Bold Alliance, an opponent that was among the plaintiffs in the case, welcomed the decision. Credit: Jason Shald / Bold Nebraskaįederal judge orders environmental review of Keystone XL pipeline, by Nancy Gaarder, Omaha World-HeraldĪ federal court in Montana has ruled that TransCanada must conduct an additional environmental review before it moves forward with the alternative route that has been approved for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Images: Nebraska landowners Bob and Nancy Allpress and supporters. Read the entire news release and additional quotations, and view photos of the first and second Solar XL projects here. The installation of wind and solar production in Nebraska will provide many good Nebraska jobs and provide years of cheap electricity for everyone in our great state.” “The monetary benefit to the peoples of Nebraska will be gone in 7 years, while the risks to our state are for the life of this pipeline. “The need for the KXL pipeline product is non-existent in the United States,” said Nebraska landowner Bob Allpress. The panels were installed by the family-owned rural solar business, North Star Solar Bears, run by Jim Knopik.

The coalition behind the Solar XL campaign includes the Indigenous Environmental Network, Native Organizers Alliance, Brave Heart Society, Dakota Rural Action, Bold Nebraska, and 350.org. By Mark Hefflinger, Communications Director, Bold Nebraska

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