The Keystone XL pipeline would cross within 200 feet of the home of Nebraska ranchers Bob and Nancy Allpress, as well as disturb a nearby legally protected bald eagle’s nest the Allpress family has monitored. That’s why Bold Nebraska has teamed up with 350.org, Indigenous Environmental Network, CREDO, Oil Change International and a coalition of groups to build solar installations inside the proposed pipeline route to help power farms and ranches. We’re standing up to Trump and Big Oil, who want to trample property rights and risk our water all for their bottom line. Keystone XL would dramatically escalate our climate crisis at a critical time when we must transition away from dirty fossil fuels to clean, renewable sources - like solar energy. WATCH: Jim Carlson tells MSNBC why he rejected TransCanada’s $307,000 offer to build KXL on his land. The Carlson’s farm in Polk County will be the site of one of the first SOLAR XL installations. Jim told the company he can’t be bought, because “my land is worth more to me and my family than any amount of money they could offer me.”

Nebraska farmers Jim and Chris Carlson rejected TransCanada’s offer of $307,000 to sell their land for KXL. ( To show our thanks for your support, the name of every donor of $25 or more will be featured on a “SOLAR XL” sign affixed to each of the solar panel installations.) The solar panels will be connected to Nebraska’s power grid, generating clean, renewable energy for the state - as opposed to a risky pipeline that would provide little benefit to Nebraskans.ĭONATE: Help protect our land, water, and climate for future generations and support #SolarXL now.

We aim to raise $50,000 to cover the first solar installations in the path of the pipeline on farmland that Nebraskans have refused to sell to TransCanada.* We have the solutions we need, which is why we’re building solar panels directly in the path of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. We refuse to allow the Keystone XL to risk our land and water.

Farmers, ranchers and Indigenous peoples are fighting with everything they have to protect the land and their communities from eminent domain for private gain. TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry 830,000 barrels per day of dirty tarsands oil from Canada through hundreds of American homes, farms and ranches, crossing the delicate Sandhills in Nebraska and putting at risk the critical Ogallala Aquifer and sacred Indigenous sites like the Ponca Trail of Tears.

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