On Tuesday, October 28, the Public Utilities Commission met in Pierre to decide who can formally weigh in on whether it should re-certify TransCanada’s permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline through our state. As…
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This past Friday and Saturday, I attended an anti-Keystone XL pipeline conference on the Ihanktonwan homeland in Pickstown, SD. It was called "Protect Women & Families from Keystone XL Violence." What follows is a brief…
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Grand Island, Nebraska: Last Thursday, this small city was the site of the U.S. State Department's one and only public hearing about the Keystone XL pipeline during its 45-day public comment period on the project's…
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Good news!I've just released "A Mother's Letter to TransCanada & Big Oil," a video inspired by a conversation with Nathan, my 10-year-old son, about the Keystone XL pipeline and tar sands mining.I'm now selling the…
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Dear neighbors in America's heartland,On January 23-25, 2013, I had the privilege of representing Fast for the Earth at the "Protect the Sacred" gathering hosted by the Ihanktonwan Dakota in Pickstown, South Dakota. Their call…
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Allow me a happy personal note: My 10-year-old son, about a half-hour ago, suddenly asked me out of the blue to talk to him about the Keystone XL. He'd been eavesdropping while I was participating…
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Most of my work these days is divided primarily three ways: publishing my new poetry blog, "A Year of Being Here"; researching a historical novel that I plan to write; and actively opposing the Keystone…
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I remember the day my grandmother Smith died: The stunning call, before dawn, saying that she had been taken by squad to the emergency room. The instinct to get there now. The delays, arrangements needing…
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