Tallgrass Energy recently received permission from the federal government to convert its existing Trailblazer pipeline, which currently carries methane gas across Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming, into a carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline. A Community Benefits Agreement has been announced between the company Tallgrass and Bold Nebraska, also earning the support of local community groups Renewable Fuels Nebraska, the Nebraska State Volunteer Firefighter Association, the Nebraska Farm Bureau, the Nebraska Corn Growers Association, the Nebraska Cattlemen Association, the Nebraska Farmers Union, the Nebr ..read more

In the state of Nebraska, there is no state agency with authority over carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines, after the Nebraska Public Service Commission issued a statement saying it had no authority under state laws, leaving landowners, counties and first responders to come up with measures to protect property rights, themselves and the communities impacted.  The Tallgrass Trailblazer methane gas pipeline was constructed in 1981 to carry gas across Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. The company recently applied for and was granted permission by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to t ..read more

ACTION: Call your State Senator: Vote NO on LB 399. (Click here to ID your Senator, and their homepage with phone number and online contact form) We need energy parity here in Nebraska — where wind, solar, coal, and pipelines are all required to have proper setbacks, local zoning restrictions, and decommissioning requirements for the infrastructure after its purpose has been served. But a bad bill currently on the floor of the Nebraska Legislature unfairly singles out wind and solar, taking away local control and setting clean energy projects up for rejection by a state board hand-picked and ..read more

John Cavanaugh. District 9. Nebraska Legislature. Nebraska State Senator John Cavanaugh has introduced LB 1366, a bill in the Nebraska Legislature that would change provisions relating to the use of eminent domain in Nebraska. The bill would change existing state law so that no entity would be authorized to use eminent domain to take a landowner’s property in Nebraska unless a majority vote of the governing body of the county, city, or village where the property is located approves such taking — and only after a “good faith” effort has been made by the entity seeking eminent domain authority ..read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov, 1, 2023 JANE KLEEB RECEIVES 2023 CLIMATE BREAKTHROUGH AWARD TO PURSUE TRANSFORMATIVE CLIMATE ACTION SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 1, 2023 — Jane Kleeb of the United States has been named as a recipient of the 2023 Climate Breakthrough Award, the largest climate funding for individuals, award organizer and global philanthropy Climate Breakthrough said today. Jane will receive US$3 million in multiyear, flexible funding along with comprehensive capacity-building resources to build alliances among rural Americans and advocate clean energy development that is beneficial to l ..read more

Congrats to our Bold Founder Jane Kleeb for being named a recipient of the 2023 Climate Breakthrough Award, the largest global climate funding award for individuals. With this award, Jane is creating a new project called Energy Builders that will focus on a new economic model around clean energy in rural communities. For too long climate action has been focused on the coasts or as a talking point in the halls of Congress. However, the majority of land needed to build America’s next 100 years of energy freedom with clean energy is in our rural towns. Rural people have been seen as pa ..read more

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2022 Harvest of Sacred Ponca Corn (Photo: Eric Galushi) We are honored to invite all of our friends to join us on Saturday, September 23rd for the harvesting of the Ponca Sacred Corn, on Ponca Nation land situated with the Tanderup family farm — the land where ancestors crossed the Ponca Trail of Tears. Mekasi Camp first had the dream to bring the Ponca Sacred Corn back to its ancestral land, over 10 years ago, as medicine and prayers to protect this land from the Keystone XL pipeline. After much discussion and prayer as leaders, we have decided this will be the last large gathering for the h ..read more

Thousands of impacted landowners, Tribal Nations, individual counties, cities and other communities across the U.S. have voiced major concerns about the terrifyingly large gaps in regulations on pipelines carrying carbon dioxide (CO2). Right now, developers are proposing a significant number of new interstate CO2 pipelines that would cross Midwest states including Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and Illinois. While none of these projects has yet obtained any necessary state agency permits, developers have already begun to use eminent domain to sue landowners who refuse t ..read more

Bold Alliance published an updated version of our Nebraska Landowner and County Leader Guide to Carbon Pipeline Risks in December 2022. The updated Guide includes: About the Nebraska Easement Action Team (NEAT) landowners’ legal co-op & FAQ Maps of proposed carbon pipeline routes in Nebraska Top 8 Reasons to Oppose Risky Carbon Pipelines “The Gassing of Satartia” by Dan Zegart (exceprt) “Welcome to the 45Q Tax Credit Piggie Farm! by Paul Blackburn, attorney, Bold Alliance How to Contact Your County Board About the Pipeline Pipeline Safety Trust: Report: Carbon Dioxide Pipelines: Dangerous ..read more