Pipeline protesters vow ‘huge fight’ against Trump
“Dakota Access pipeline protest group Bold Iowa bashed action taken by President Trump Tuesday to expedite completion of the controversial pipeline, as well as re-start the Keystone Pipeline. Trump’s executive order will allow work to…
Nebraska lawmakers introduce bills that would end public power companies’ monopoly, use of eminent domain
“Nebraska legislators introduced a deluge of energy-related bills at the Capitol last week, including one that threatens to challenge public power’s primacy in the state, and two others that would introduce sweeping changes to the…
Beyond Standing Rock: As Pipelines Proliferate Across the U.S., So Do Protests
“Hundreds of miles from the North Dakota pipeline protests that garnered headlines this fall, a woman in Iowa stood in her soy bean field, trying to block industrial mowers about to cut down her crops….
Company planning to build gas pipeline through coastal Georgia
“A 360-mile pipeline carrying gasoline, diesel and ethanol could stretch across the length of Coastal Georgia by 2017, connecting an existing pipeline running through South Carolina to Jacksonville. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, the third largest…
TransCanada Is Seizing People’s Land To Build Keystone, But Conservatives Have Been Dead Silent
“For Julia Trigg Crawford, watching TransCanada construct the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline on a corner of her 600-acre farm was “gut-wrenching.” Crawford, who lives in Direct, Texas, had been trying since 2011…