Meet the Voters on Opposite Sides of the Keystone XL Pipeline Debate
“While President Barack Obama’s veto on Tuesday of a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline marks yet another chapter in the politics of the controversial energy project, a legal fight continues to stop TransCanada from filing for eminent domain to gain access to the land they need to lay the pipe down in Nebraska.
“There isn’t enough money on earth to make us believe in this project,” Jenni Harrington said, standing amid the equipment used to work the land on her family farm in Bradshaw, Nebraska. “I am not creative enough to think of anything that they could do to make me change my mind about this project.
Harrington and her three sisters own the farm, which has been in their family since her great-great grandparents homesteaded the land in the 1860s. The Keystone XL pipeline’s proposed route goes right through one of her sister’s plots, and the family has built a small barn powered by solar panels and wind energy right on the route as a not-so-silent protest against the project.
“It feels wrong that a foreign company can come in and place an easement on our land against our will,” Harrington said. “It feels wrong that a toxic poisonous substance can be placed in a Pipeline across our land where there is fertile soils and fresh water underneath.”””
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Thorp, Frank and Joe Toohey. Meet the Press NBC News 25 February 2015.