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Susan Bedford (Dunavan)
To the Class of '68:
Some of you may know that for the past eight plus years our family has been battling the Keystone XL Pipeline. We were notified by TransCanada in May 2008 that a high velocity, high pressure major oil pipeline was coming through our property whether we liked it or not and there was nothing we could do about it.
We decided to fight.
A foreign country piping foreign "oil"(aka Bitumen") through a foreign pipeline to a foreign refinery to be shipped around the world was not something our family wanted any part of. We have fought TransCanada through county court, district court and even the Nebraska Supreme Court where 3 judges refused to give a judgement over a constitutional challenge. This project is trying to use eminent domain for private gain and to take our land for corporate greed. It threatens the Ogallala Aquifer which supplies water to many states. It threatens to pollute our land.
There is no legal route for KXL through the State of Nebraska. On August 7-11, 2017 we will stand in front of the Nebraska Public Service Commission which will decide the fate of KXL. This pipeline serves no public interest for the people of the United States,
The Class of '68 was "The Year that Shaped a Generation." Together let us also be the "Class that Shaped our Nation". We can stop the Keystone XL Pipeline and protect our Nation's land and water for future generations.
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