Nebraskans Building Solar Panels to Block Keystone XL Pipeline

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“They’ll have to go under it, around it, or tear it down to get their dirty oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.”

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From Greenpeace.org:

“Nebraskans Are Building Solar Panels to Block the Keystone XL Pipeline

by Mike Hudema, August 15, 2017

“They’ll have to go under it, around it, or tear it down to get their dirty oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.”

Right in the path of the KeystoneXL Nebraskan landowners are putting up #solar arrays to block its path.
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Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) August 08, 2017

Environmentalists are sometimes criticized for not talking about solutions enough. The media often portrays people who oppose pipelines as ‘anti-development,’ for instance. The reality, however, is that we can both fight against dangerous pipelines and fight for solutions like renewable energy at the same time — and those fighting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline just made that point more clear than ever.

Landowners and Indigenous groups are joining together to build solar projects directly in the path…

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