How Republicans can get Keystone passed

[Toddsterpatriot]

Published on
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Faced With Land Seizures, Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL
'Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border.'

by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Nebraska ranchers and farmers are building a renewable energy powered barn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei-Bold Nebraska/flickr/cc)

As Canadian energy company TransCanada filed eminent domain claims against Nebraska landowners on Tuesday for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, families whose properties are on the verge of forced seizure say they will do whatever is necessary to shut down the project.

Landowners from Nebraska's York and Holt counties last week filed suit against TransCanada to stall or even stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through their state. On Tuesday, they continued to call on President Barack Obama to veto the project altogether.

"Today, Nebraska families are facing an inconceivable moment when land that has been in their hands for generations is being taken away from them by a foreign oil company," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb stated in a press release. "Landowners will match TransCanada’s lawsuits in local courts and continue to take our fight to the one person who can put an end to all of this: President Obama."

Obama has promised to veto legislation that would force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; Senate Republicans have vowed to get the pipeline approved as one of their first acts of 2015.

TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law, which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of the landowners who joined in the suit.

"From the Kalamazoo to the Yellowstone rivers and all across the United States, tar sands are a horrible danger and threat that the President must reject," Tarnick added.

Bold Nebraska noted that public support for the Keystone XL pipeline has waned over time, with only 41 percent approving of the project in a recent poll.

Yet while landowners, the president, and the public at large continue to speak out against the pipeline, former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who approved Keystone construction in the state, "abus[ed] the powers of his office" by taking authority away from the people of Nebraska and giving it to himself "to approve a pipeline and give a foreign corporation the power of eminent domain before they have all their permits in place," the lawsuit states.

"While we fight to ensure TransCanada and the state of Nebraska do not run roughshod over farmers and ranchers, we also call upon President Obama to reject Keystone XL now," Kleeb said last week.

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline, stated on Tuesday: "We can not survive as a family business without clean water. Our government has no solution to clean up tar sands and benzene from our water. Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border."

Faced With Land Seizures Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline

More real energy, less unreliable "green energy".
Win-win.

 

[Care4all]

Published on
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Faced With Land Seizures, Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL
'Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border.'

by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Nebraska ranchers and farmers are building a renewable energy powered barn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei-Bold Nebraska/flickr/cc)

As Canadian energy company TransCanada filed eminent domain claims against Nebraska landowners on Tuesday for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, families whose properties are on the verge of forced seizure say they will do whatever is necessary to shut down the project.

Landowners from Nebraska's York and Holt counties last week filed suit against TransCanada to stall or even stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through their state. On Tuesday, they continued to call on President Barack Obama to veto the project altogether.

"Today, Nebraska families are facing an inconceivable moment when land that has been in their hands for generations is being taken away from them by a foreign oil company," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb stated in a press release. "Landowners will match TransCanada’s lawsuits in local courts and continue to take our fight to the one person who can put an end to all of this: President Obama."

Obama has promised to veto legislation that would force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; Senate Republicans have vowed to get the pipeline approved as one of their first acts of 2015.

TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law, which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of the landowners who joined in the suit.

"From the Kalamazoo to the Yellowstone rivers and all across the United States, tar sands are a horrible danger and threat that the President must reject," Tarnick added.

Bold Nebraska noted that public support for the Keystone XL pipeline has waned over time, with only 41 percent approving of the project in a recent poll.

Yet while landowners, the president, and the public at large continue to speak out against the pipeline, former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who approved Keystone construction in the state, "abus[ed] the powers of his office" by taking authority away from the people of Nebraska and giving it to himself "to approve a pipeline and give a foreign corporation the power of eminent domain before they have all their permits in place," the lawsuit states.

"While we fight to ensure TransCanada and the state of Nebraska do not run roughshod over farmers and ranchers, we also call upon President Obama to reject Keystone XL now," Kleeb said last week.

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline, stated on Tuesday: "We can not survive as a family business without clean water. Our government has no solution to clean up tar sands and benzene from our water. Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border."

Faced With Land Seizures Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline

More real energy, less unreliable "green energy".
Win-win.

Todd, it's TIME for your PATRIOT part of your user name, to kick in...

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

 

[rightwinger]

Why are Republicans so obsessed with the few jobs Keystone would bring and yet totally indifferent to the thousands of infrastructure projects that would bring real jobs?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Published on
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Faced With Land Seizures, Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL
'Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border.'

by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Nebraska ranchers and farmers are building a renewable energy powered barn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei-Bold Nebraska/flickr/cc)

As Canadian energy company TransCanada filed eminent domain claims against Nebraska landowners on Tuesday for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, families whose properties are on the verge of forced seizure say they will do whatever is necessary to shut down the project.

Landowners from Nebraska's York and Holt counties last week filed suit against TransCanada to stall or even stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through their state. On Tuesday, they continued to call on President Barack Obama to veto the project altogether.

"Today, Nebraska families are facing an inconceivable moment when land that has been in their hands for generations is being taken away from them by a foreign oil company," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb stated in a press release. "Landowners will match TransCanada’s lawsuits in local courts and continue to take our fight to the one person who can put an end to all of this: President Obama."

Obama has promised to veto legislation that would force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; Senate Republicans have vowed to get the pipeline approved as one of their first acts of 2015.

TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law, which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of the landowners who joined in the suit.

"From the Kalamazoo to the Yellowstone rivers and all across the United States, tar sands are a horrible danger and threat that the President must reject," Tarnick added.

Bold Nebraska noted that public support for the Keystone XL pipeline has waned over time, with only 41 percent approving of the project in a recent poll.

Yet while landowners, the president, and the public at large continue to speak out against the pipeline, former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who approved Keystone construction in the state, "abus[ed] the powers of his office" by taking authority away from the people of Nebraska and giving it to himself "to approve a pipeline and give a foreign corporation the power of eminent domain before they have all their permits in place," the lawsuit states.

"While we fight to ensure TransCanada and the state of Nebraska do not run roughshod over farmers and ranchers, we also call upon President Obama to reject Keystone XL now," Kleeb said last week.

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline, stated on Tuesday: "We can not survive as a family business without clean water. Our government has no solution to clean up tar sands and benzene from our water. Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border."

Faced With Land Seizures Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline

More real energy, less unreliable "green energy".
Win-win.

Todd, it's TIME for your PATRIOT part of your user name, to kick in...

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

Published on
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Faced With Land Seizures, Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL
'Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border.'

by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Nebraska ranchers and farmers are building a renewable energy powered barn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei-Bold Nebraska/flickr/cc)

As Canadian energy company TransCanada filed eminent domain claims against Nebraska landowners on Tuesday for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, families whose properties are on the verge of forced seizure say they will do whatever is necessary to shut down the project.

Landowners from Nebraska's York and Holt counties last week filed suit against TransCanada to stall or even stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through their state. On Tuesday, they continued to call on President Barack Obama to veto the project altogether.

"Today, Nebraska families are facing an inconceivable moment when land that has been in their hands for generations is being taken away from them by a foreign oil company," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb stated in a press release. "Landowners will match TransCanada’s lawsuits in local courts and continue to take our fight to the one person who can put an end to all of this: President Obama."

Obama has promised to veto legislation that would force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; Senate Republicans have vowed to get the pipeline approved as one of their first acts of 2015.

TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law, which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of the landowners who joined in the suit.

"From the Kalamazoo to the Yellowstone rivers and all across the United States, tar sands are a horrible danger and threat that the President must reject," Tarnick added.

Bold Nebraska noted that public support for the Keystone XL pipeline has waned over time, with only 41 percent approving of the project in a recent poll.

Yet while landowners, the president, and the public at large continue to speak out against the pipeline, former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who approved Keystone construction in the state, "abus[ed] the powers of his office" by taking authority away from the people of Nebraska and giving it to himself "to approve a pipeline and give a foreign corporation the power of eminent domain before they have all their permits in place," the lawsuit states.

"While we fight to ensure TransCanada and the state of Nebraska do not run roughshod over farmers and ranchers, we also call upon President Obama to reject Keystone XL now," Kleeb said last week.

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline, stated on Tuesday: "We can not survive as a family business without clean water. Our government has no solution to clean up tar sands and benzene from our water. Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border."

Faced With Land Seizures Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline

More real energy, less unreliable "green energy".
Win-win.

Todd, it's TIME for your PATRIOT part of your user name, to kick in...

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

Private land is bought all the time, for pipelines, roads and other infrastructure projects. So what?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why are Republicans so obsessed with the few jobs Keystone would bring and yet totally indifferent to the thousands of infrastructure projects that would bring real jobs?

Why are Dems against private enterprise creating jobs and increasing our energy security?

 

[Care4all]

Published on
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Faced With Land Seizures, Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL
'Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border.'

by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Nebraska ranchers and farmers are building a renewable energy powered barn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei-Bold Nebraska/flickr/cc)

As Canadian energy company TransCanada filed eminent domain claims against Nebraska landowners on Tuesday for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, families whose properties are on the verge of forced seizure say they will do whatever is necessary to shut down the project.

Landowners from Nebraska's York and Holt counties last week filed suit against TransCanada to stall or even stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through their state. On Tuesday, they continued to call on President Barack Obama to veto the project altogether.

"Today, Nebraska families are facing an inconceivable moment when land that has been in their hands for generations is being taken away from them by a foreign oil company," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb stated in a press release. "Landowners will match TransCanada’s lawsuits in local courts and continue to take our fight to the one person who can put an end to all of this: President Obama."

Obama has promised to veto legislation that would force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; Senate Republicans have vowed to get the pipeline approved as one of their first acts of 2015.

TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law, which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of the landowners who joined in the suit.

"From the Kalamazoo to the Yellowstone rivers and all across the United States, tar sands are a horrible danger and threat that the President must reject," Tarnick added.

Bold Nebraska noted that public support for the Keystone XL pipeline has waned over time, with only 41 percent approving of the project in a recent poll.

Yet while landowners, the president, and the public at large continue to speak out against the pipeline, former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who approved Keystone construction in the state, "abus[ed] the powers of his office" by taking authority away from the people of Nebraska and giving it to himself "to approve a pipeline and give a foreign corporation the power of eminent domain before they have all their permits in place," the lawsuit states.

"While we fight to ensure TransCanada and the state of Nebraska do not run roughshod over farmers and ranchers, we also call upon President Obama to reject Keystone XL now," Kleeb said last week.

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline, stated on Tuesday: "We can not survive as a family business without clean water. Our government has no solution to clean up tar sands and benzene from our water. Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border."

Faced With Land Seizures Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline

More real energy, less unreliable "green energy".
Win-win.

Todd, it's TIME for your PATRIOT part of your user name, to kick in...

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

Published on
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Faced With Land Seizures, Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL
'Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border.'

by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Nebraska ranchers and farmers are building a renewable energy powered barn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei-Bold Nebraska/flickr/cc)

As Canadian energy company TransCanada filed eminent domain claims against Nebraska landowners on Tuesday for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, families whose properties are on the verge of forced seizure say they will do whatever is necessary to shut down the project.

Landowners from Nebraska's York and Holt counties last week filed suit against TransCanada to stall or even stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through their state. On Tuesday, they continued to call on President Barack Obama to veto the project altogether.

"Today, Nebraska families are facing an inconceivable moment when land that has been in their hands for generations is being taken away from them by a foreign oil company," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb stated in a press release. "Landowners will match TransCanada’s lawsuits in local courts and continue to take our fight to the one person who can put an end to all of this: President Obama."

Obama has promised to veto legislation that would force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; Senate Republicans have vowed to get the pipeline approved as one of their first acts of 2015.

TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law, which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of the landowners who joined in the suit.

"From the Kalamazoo to the Yellowstone rivers and all across the United States, tar sands are a horrible danger and threat that the President must reject," Tarnick added.

Bold Nebraska noted that public support for the Keystone XL pipeline has waned over time, with only 41 percent approving of the project in a recent poll.

Yet while landowners, the president, and the public at large continue to speak out against the pipeline, former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who approved Keystone construction in the state, "abus[ed] the powers of his office" by taking authority away from the people of Nebraska and giving it to himself "to approve a pipeline and give a foreign corporation the power of eminent domain before they have all their permits in place," the lawsuit states.

"While we fight to ensure TransCanada and the state of Nebraska do not run roughshod over farmers and ranchers, we also call upon President Obama to reject Keystone XL now," Kleeb said last week.

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline, stated on Tuesday: "We can not survive as a family business without clean water. Our government has no solution to clean up tar sands and benzene from our water. Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border."

Faced With Land Seizures Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline

More real energy, less unreliable "green energy".
Win-win.

Todd, it's TIME for your PATRIOT part of your user name, to kick in...

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

Private land is bought all the time, for pipelines, roads and other infrastructure projects. So what?

So tell me, what is PATRIOTIC about stealing a citizen's land from their family homestead, via using Eminent Domain, and handing it over to a foreign' country's business owner so this foreign country can make more 'profit' off of their product?

Are you truly that obtuse? Truly?

Trans Canada should PAY the landowners, whatever it takes to buy the land from them....

Our government should never ever use eminent domain for the purpose of making another person from a foreign nation more profitable with their business, AND should NEVER EVER use it to take a citizen's land away for merely the purpose of bringing more Profits to another person, foreign or national.

Or were you a big big supporter of New London vs kelo decision?

So tell me again, WHAT MAKES THIS PATRIOTIC?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Published on
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Faced With Land Seizures, Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL
'Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border.'

by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Nebraska ranchers and farmers are building a renewable energy powered barn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei-Bold Nebraska/flickr/cc)

As Canadian energy company TransCanada filed eminent domain claims against Nebraska landowners on Tuesday for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, families whose properties are on the verge of forced seizure say they will do whatever is necessary to shut down the project.

Landowners from Nebraska's York and Holt counties last week filed suit against TransCanada to stall or even stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through their state. On Tuesday, they continued to call on President Barack Obama to veto the project altogether.

"Today, Nebraska families are facing an inconceivable moment when land that has been in their hands for generations is being taken away from them by a foreign oil company," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb stated in a press release. "Landowners will match TransCanada’s lawsuits in local courts and continue to take our fight to the one person who can put an end to all of this: President Obama."

Obama has promised to veto legislation that would force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; Senate Republicans have vowed to get the pipeline approved as one of their first acts of 2015.

TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law, which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of the landowners who joined in the suit.

"From the Kalamazoo to the Yellowstone rivers and all across the United States, tar sands are a horrible danger and threat that the President must reject," Tarnick added.

Bold Nebraska noted that public support for the Keystone XL pipeline has waned over time, with only 41 percent approving of the project in a recent poll.

Yet while landowners, the president, and the public at large continue to speak out against the pipeline, former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who approved Keystone construction in the state, "abus[ed] the powers of his office" by taking authority away from the people of Nebraska and giving it to himself "to approve a pipeline and give a foreign corporation the power of eminent domain before they have all their permits in place," the lawsuit states.

"While we fight to ensure TransCanada and the state of Nebraska do not run roughshod over farmers and ranchers, we also call upon President Obama to reject Keystone XL now," Kleeb said last week.

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline, stated on Tuesday: "We can not survive as a family business without clean water. Our government has no solution to clean up tar sands and benzene from our water. Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border."

Faced With Land Seizures Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline

More real energy, less unreliable "green energy".
Win-win.

Todd, it's TIME for your PATRIOT part of your user name, to kick in...

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

Published on
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Faced With Land Seizures, Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL
'Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border.'

by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Nebraska ranchers and farmers are building a renewable energy powered barn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Mary Anne Andrei-Bold Nebraska/flickr/cc)

As Canadian energy company TransCanada filed eminent domain claims against Nebraska landowners on Tuesday for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, families whose properties are on the verge of forced seizure say they will do whatever is necessary to shut down the project.

Landowners from Nebraska's York and Holt counties last week filed suit against TransCanada to stall or even stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through their state. On Tuesday, they continued to call on President Barack Obama to veto the project altogether.

"Today, Nebraska families are facing an inconceivable moment when land that has been in their hands for generations is being taken away from them by a foreign oil company," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb stated in a press release. "Landowners will match TransCanada’s lawsuits in local courts and continue to take our fight to the one person who can put an end to all of this: President Obama."

Obama has promised to veto legislation that would force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; Senate Republicans have vowed to get the pipeline approved as one of their first acts of 2015.

TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law, which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of the landowners who joined in the suit.

"From the Kalamazoo to the Yellowstone rivers and all across the United States, tar sands are a horrible danger and threat that the President must reject," Tarnick added.

Bold Nebraska noted that public support for the Keystone XL pipeline has waned over time, with only 41 percent approving of the project in a recent poll.

Yet while landowners, the president, and the public at large continue to speak out against the pipeline, former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who approved Keystone construction in the state, "abus[ed] the powers of his office" by taking authority away from the people of Nebraska and giving it to himself "to approve a pipeline and give a foreign corporation the power of eminent domain before they have all their permits in place," the lawsuit states.

"While we fight to ensure TransCanada and the state of Nebraska do not run roughshod over farmers and ranchers, we also call upon President Obama to reject Keystone XL now," Kleeb said last week.

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline, stated on Tuesday: "We can not survive as a family business without clean water. Our government has no solution to clean up tar sands and benzene from our water. Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights go back across our border."

Faced With Land Seizures Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community

Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn down for the construction of the pipeline

More real energy, less unreliable "green energy".
Win-win.

Todd, it's TIME for your PATRIOT part of your user name, to kick in...

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

WHAT is Patriotic about stealing citizen's land from them and giving it to a foreign nation's business owner?

Private land is bought all the time, for pipelines, roads and other infrastructure projects. So what?

So tell me, what is PATRIOTIC about stealing a citizen's land from their family homestead, via using Eminent Domain, and handing it over to a foreign' country's business owner so this foreign country can make more 'profit' off of their product?

Are you truly that obtuse? Truly?

Trans Canada should PAY the landowners, whatever it takes to buy the land from them....

Our government should never ever use eminent domain for the purpose of making another person from a foreign nation more profitable with their business, AND should NEVER EVER use it to take a citizen's land away for merely the purpose of bringing more Profits to another person, foreign or national.

Or were a big big supporter of New London vs kelo decision?

So tell me again, WHAT MAKES THIS PATRIOTIC?

So tell me, what is PATRIOTIC about stealing a citizen's land from their family homestead

It's not stolen, it's purchased.

Our government should never ever use eminent domain for the purpose of making another person from a foreign nation more profitable with their business

That's not the purpose.

Or were a big big supporter of New London vs kelo decision?

No.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Obama mentioned it last night. Why center on one small infrastructure project when America has so much infrastructure to be built and improved?

Why not wrap Keystone in as part of a much larger infrastructure package and send it to the President?

I bet he would sign it

My take away was Obama's subtle jab at tea party hypocrisy. The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs, the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Obama mentioned it last night. Why center on one small infrastructure project when America has so much infrastructure to be built and improved?

Why not wrap Keystone in as part of a much larger infrastructure package and send it to the President?

I bet he would sign it

My take away was Obama's subtle jab at tea party hypocrisy. The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs, the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure.

The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs,

Only dolts claim it won't create jobs.

the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure

Yes, hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars built a bit of infrastructure.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Obama mentioned it last night. Why center on one small infrastructure project when America has so much infrastructure to be built and improved?

Why not wrap Keystone in as part of a much larger infrastructure package and send it to the President?

I bet he would sign it

My take away was Obama's subtle jab at tea party hypocrisy. The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs, the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure.

The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs,

Only dolts claim it won't create jobs.

the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure

Yes, hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars built a bit of infrastructure.

A bit?

Google

Google

Google

These in one small geographic area and have created a hundred times the 35 permanent jobs of keystone, serving American Citizens and not Canadian Shale Oil companies. Why won't they build their own refiners for shale oil?

 

[Siete]

Toad yammers;

Private land is bought all the time, for pipelines, roads and other infrastructure projects. So what?

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians. How dumb are you?
Like I said, I'd GIVE this country my 600 acres to save my country. But I don't want to sell 1 square foot to Canada for any reason. Canada owns as much unused land as we do, so let them use it.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Obama mentioned it last night. Why center on one small infrastructure project when America has so much infrastructure to be built and improved?

Why not wrap Keystone in as part of a much larger infrastructure package and send it to the President?

I bet he would sign it

My take away was Obama's subtle jab at tea party hypocrisy. The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs, the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure.

The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs,

Only dolts claim it won't create jobs.

the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure

Yes, hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars built a bit of infrastructure.

A bit?

Google

Google

Google

These in one small geographic area and have created a hundred times the 35 permanent jobs of keystone, serving American Citizens and not Canadian Shale Oil companies. Why won't they build their own refiners for shale oil?

Yes, a bit.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Toad yammers;

Private land is bought all the time, for pipelines, roads and other infrastructure projects. So what?

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians. How dumb are you?
Like I said, I'd GIVE this country my 600 acres to save my country. But I don't want to sell 1 square foot to Canada for any reason. Canada owns as much unused land as we do, so let them use it.

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians.

And we have a pipeline from Alaska thru Canada. And thousands of miles of pipeline here already.
More being built all the time.
But Keystone is somehow special. Give me a break.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Obama mentioned it last night. Why center on one small infrastructure project when America has so much infrastructure to be built and improved?

Why not wrap Keystone in as part of a much larger infrastructure package and send it to the President?

I bet he would sign it

My take away was Obama's subtle jab at tea party hypocrisy. The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs, the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure.

The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs,

Only dolts claim it won't create jobs.

the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure

Yes, hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars built a bit of infrastructure.

A bit?

Google

Google

Google

These in one small geographic area and have created a hundred times the 35 permanent jobs of keystone, serving American Citizens and not Canadian Shale Oil companies. Why won't they build their own refiners for shale oil?

Yes, a bit.

Then in your mind Keystone must be a Quark.

 

[Siete]

Toad yammers;

Private land is bought all the time, for pipelines, roads and other infrastructure projects. So what?

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians. How dumb are you?
Like I said, I'd GIVE this country my 600 acres to save my country. But I don't want to sell 1 square foot to Canada for any reason. Canada owns as much unused land as we do, so let them use it.

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians.

And we have a pipeline from Alaska thru Canada. And thousands of miles of pipeline here already.
More being built all the time.
But Keystone is somehow special. Give me a break.

Keystone might have been special, but we started producing shale, and don't need a drop of Canadian asphalt .. as they say out West, Shit happens.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Obama mentioned it last night. Why center on one small infrastructure project when America has so much infrastructure to be built and improved?

Why not wrap Keystone in as part of a much larger infrastructure package and send it to the President?

I bet he would sign it

My take away was Obama's subtle jab at tea party hypocrisy. The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs, the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure.

The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs,

Only dolts claim it won't create jobs.

the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure

Yes, hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars built a bit of infrastructure.

A bit?

Google

Google

Google

These in one small geographic area and have created a hundred times the 35 permanent jobs of keystone, serving American Citizens and not Canadian Shale Oil companies. Why won't they build their own refiners for shale oil?

Yes, a bit.

Then in your mind Keystone must be a Quark.

Not really.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Toad yammers;

Private land is bought all the time, for pipelines, roads and other infrastructure projects. So what?

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians. How dumb are you?
Like I said, I'd GIVE this country my 600 acres to save my country. But I don't want to sell 1 square foot to Canada for any reason. Canada owns as much unused land as we do, so let them use it.

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians.

And we have a pipeline from Alaska thru Canada. And thousands of miles of pipeline here already.
More being built all the time.
But Keystone is somehow special. Give me a break.

Keystone might have been special, but we started producing shale, and don't need a drop of Canadian asphalt .. as they say out West, Shit happens.

We only produce about 10 million barrels a day. Keystone reduces the amount we need to import from Venezuela. Still a good idea.

 

[Siete]

Toad yammers;

Private land is bought all the time, for pipelines, roads and other infrastructure projects. So what?

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians. How dumb are you?
Like I said, I'd GIVE this country my 600 acres to save my country. But I don't want to sell 1 square foot to Canada for any reason. Canada owns as much unused land as we do, so let them use it.

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians.

And we have a pipeline from Alaska thru Canada. And thousands of miles of pipeline here already.
More being built all the time.
But Keystone is somehow special. Give me a break.

Keystone might have been special, but we started producing shale, and don't need a drop of Canadian asphalt .. as they say out West, Shit happens.

We only produce about 10 million barrels a day. Keystone reduces the amount we need to import from Venezuela. Still a good idea.

get someone to explain the difference between OUR oil and their oil to you.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Toad yammers;

Private land is bought all the time, for pipelines, roads and other infrastructure projects. So what?

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians. How dumb are you?
Like I said, I'd GIVE this country my 600 acres to save my country. But I don't want to sell 1 square foot to Canada for any reason. Canada owns as much unused land as we do, so let them use it.

infrastructure that is American infrastructure and belongs to Americans not Canadians.

And we have a pipeline from Alaska thru Canada. And thousands of miles of pipeline here already.
More being built all the time.
But Keystone is somehow special. Give me a break.

Keystone might have been special, but we started producing shale, and don't need a drop of Canadian asphalt .. as they say out West, Shit happens.

We only produce about 10 million barrels a day. Keystone reduces the amount we need to import from Venezuela. Still a good idea.

get someone to explain the difference between OUR oil and their oil to you.

We don't refine Canadian oil or use those refined products? Seriously?

 

[Wry Catcher]

My take away was Obama's subtle jab at tea party hypocrisy. The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs, the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure.

The dolts want Keystone claiming it will create jobs,

Only dolts claim it won't create jobs.

the Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs and rebuilt, repaired and built new our some of our nation's infrastructure

Yes, hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars built a bit of infrastructure.

A bit?

Google

Google

Google

These in one small geographic area and have created a hundred times the 35 permanent jobs of keystone, serving American Citizens and not Canadian Shale Oil companies. Why won't they build their own refiners for shale oil?

Yes, a bit.

Then in your mind Keystone must be a Quark.

Not really.

What is the smallest particle of matter known?

"What is the smallest particle of matter known? So far it looks like there is nothing smaller inside an atom than quarks"