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The State Department's draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) purports to analyze the new "Mainline Alternative Route" through Nebraska. Yet over the last ten years, this route had not undergone any substantial review of environmental or cultural resources, such as Tribal sacred sites, before it was approved by the Nebraska Public Service Commission in November 2017.

The draft report also concedes that there would be adverse impacts to the land on the Tanderup Farm in Neligh, Nebraska, where allies including the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma and Ponca Tribe of Nebraska along with the Cowboy and Indian Alliance have grown Ponca Sacred Corn for the past six years. Last summer, the Tanderup family deeded the land where the corn is grown, which also lies on the historic Ponca Trail of Tears – and is on the proposed Keystone XL route – back to the Ponca Nation of Nebraska. The draft SEIS acknowledges that construction of the pipeline would disturb this sacred land.

The Keystone XL pipeline was a bad idea when it was proposed 11 years ago, and it remains a bad idea today. TransCanada bullies landowners and continues to ignore meaningful consultation with Tribal Nations. In addition, as we’ve known since it was first proposed, the Keystone XL pipeline would be a climate disaster. Given the severity of our climate crisis, the last thing we should be doing is building new pipelines to ship dirty tar sands for export around the world.

Thank you.