Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Neil Young, Willie Nelson concert set in path of Keystone XL Pipeline

Tickets go on sale Wednesday for Neil Young and Willie Nelson in a benefit concert Sept. 27 on a farm near Neligh that is in the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The concert was announced Monday by Jane Kleeb, the leader of the “Bold Nebraska” anti-pipeline movement. Proceeds from the "Harvest the Hope" concert will go to Bold Nebraska as well as the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Cowboy and Indian Alliance, to fund the ongoing fight against the pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Kleeb said a number of small, community-based clean energy projects on farms and tribal lands will also benefit. The outdoor concert will also feature Nebraska musicians and a Native American rapper. It will begin at 1 p.m. in a farm field owned by the Tanderup family, who are among the Nebraska landowners who refuse to sell their land to the TransCanada corporation for the Keystone XL pipeline. Art and Helen Tanderup are also part of the “Cowboy & Indian Alliance," a group of farmers, ranchers and tribal members that demonstrated in Washington, D.C. in April against the Keystone XL pipeline. This spring, the Ponca tribe of Oklahoma partnered with the alliance to hand-plant several acres of sacred Ponca corn on the Tanderup farm — the tribe's ancestral homeland — where it will be harvested in Nebraska this fall for the first time since the Ponca people were forced to go to Oklahoma 137 years ago...more

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