{"id":1177,"date":"2014-05-02T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T21:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2014-05-02T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T21:27:17","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-senate-on-kxl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/02\/an-open-letter-to-the-senate-on-kxl\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to the Senate on KXL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/boldnebraska.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BOLD Nebraska<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the Senate once again prepares to take a vote on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Nebraska voices will remind Senators that states\u2019 rights are at stake, and that a vote for Keystone XL is a vote to disregard Nebraska\u2019s legal process.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska rancher Randy (\u201cStand With Randy\u201d) Thompson penned an open letter to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, April 30. Thompson has been a key rural voice against Keystone XL \u2014 he was arrested along with others in a civil disobedience action at the White House protesting Keystone XL in 2013, and is one of the three landowner plaintiffs in Thompson v. Heineman, the lawsuit that successfully challenged the constitutionality of the KXL routing process in Nebraska, leaving TransCanada with no legal route or eminent domain power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boldnebraska.org\/nebraska-rancher-randy-thompsons-open-letter-to-senate-on-keystone-xl-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BOLD Nebraska: As the Senate once again prepares to take a vote on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Nebraska voices will remind Senators that states\u2019 rights are at stake, and that a vote for Keystone XL is a vote to disregard Nebraska\u2019s legal process. Nebraska rancher Randy (\u201cStand With Randy\u201d) Thompson penned an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/02\/an-open-letter-to-the-senate-on-kxl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Open Letter to the Senate on KXL<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[10,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}