Anti-Keystone crusader mom in cowboy boots
Keystone Pipeline Nemesis Leads Charge From Family Van
By Jim Snyder - Bloomberg
Jane Kleeb takes her Honda Odyssey across the highways and back roads of Nebraska to deliver a simple message: the oil pipeline can be stopped.
On one recent trip, she steered around puddles left by a spring thaw on a stretch of unpaved road. She was headed for a ranch TransCanada Corp.’s (TRP) proposed Keystone XL pipeline would cross, to visit a couple that is fighting the project.
Kleeb, 40, the executive director of Bold Nebraska, figures she travels the state at least twice a week to tell residents that if they stick together, they can block the pipeline. She has put 60,000 miles on the Odyssey since buying it 1 1/2 years ago.
“I thought citizens on their own had pushed back, but the government wasn’t representing them,” Kleeb, organizer and political activist, said in an interview. “Now we have more of a unified voice.”
(More here. See also "Jane Kleeb: The Keystone Killer" in Rolling Stone.)
Jane Kleeb takes her Honda Odyssey across the highways and back roads of Nebraska to deliver a simple message: the oil pipeline can be stopped.
On one recent trip, she steered around puddles left by a spring thaw on a stretch of unpaved road. She was headed for a ranch TransCanada Corp.’s (TRP) proposed Keystone XL pipeline would cross, to visit a couple that is fighting the project.
Kleeb, 40, the executive director of Bold Nebraska, figures she travels the state at least twice a week to tell residents that if they stick together, they can block the pipeline. She has put 60,000 miles on the Odyssey since buying it 1 1/2 years ago.
“I thought citizens on their own had pushed back, but the government wasn’t representing them,” Kleeb, organizer and political activist, said in an interview. “Now we have more of a unified voice.”
(More here. See also "Jane Kleeb: The Keystone Killer" in Rolling Stone.)
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