{"id":1383,"date":"2014-12-29T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2014-12-29T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:39:13","slug":"on-nebraskas-farmland-keystone-xl-pipeline-debate-is-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/29\/on-nebraskas-farmland-keystone-xl-pipeline-debate-is-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"On Nebraska&#8217;s Farmland, Keystone XL Pipeline Debate Is Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Drive down gravel Road 22 in Nebraska&#8217;s York County, past weathered farmhouses and corn cut to stubble in rich, black loam soil, and you&#8217;ll find a small barn by the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Built of native ponderosa pine, the barn is topped with solar panels. A windmill spins furiously out front.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the Energy Barn, it&#8217;s a symbol of renewable energy, standing smack on the proposed route of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline \u2014 a project of the energy giant TransCanada.<\/p>\n<p>Pipeline opponents built the barn two summers ago. And at first, says Jenni Harrington, one of those opponents, &#8220;I think a lot of the neighbors didn&#8217;t like the barn. They thought it was like poking TransCanada in the eye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took me aback because I was like, &#8216;Well, what do you think they&#8217;re doing, walking on our land and saying, &#8216;Hey, we&#8217;re gonna put a pipeline through it&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/12\/16\/371216129\/on-nebraskas-prairies-keystone-xl-pipeline-debate-is-personal\" target=\"_blank\">Read or listen to the two-part radio story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR: Drive down gravel Road 22 in Nebraska&#8217;s York County, past weathered farmhouses and corn cut to stubble in rich, black loam soil, and you&#8217;ll find a small barn by the side of the road. Built of native ponderosa pine, the barn is topped with solar panels. A windmill spins furiously out front. Known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/29\/on-nebraskas-farmland-keystone-xl-pipeline-debate-is-personal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Nebraska&#8217;s Farmland, Keystone XL Pipeline Debate Is Personal<\/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":[13,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"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=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}