In possible roadblock for Keystone XL, pipeline opponents gift land to Ponca

[Omaha Steve]

Art Tanderup gives instructions on planting sacred corn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline at his farm near Neligh last year.

WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE

By Paul Hammel / World-Herald Bureau 18 hrs ago

LINCOLN — For five years, opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and members of the Ponca Indian Tribe have sown native tribal corn in the path of the controversial project as a form of resistance.

Now they’ve planted another potential roadblock.

Last weekend, Art and Helen Tanderup, who farm north of Neligh, Nebraska, deeded the 1.6-acre plot of native corn to the native inhabitants of the land, the Ponca.

Selling the land to the Ponca means that TransCanada will have to negotiate with a new landowner, one that has special legal status as a tribe — a tribe that is opposed to the pipeline. The plot becomes the only tribally owned plot of land on the XL pipeline route in the U.S.

FULL story: http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/in-possible-roadblock-for-keystone-xl-pipeline-opponents-gift-land/article_cbcf6d2b-1862-5d11-b4dd-5ad81d0378ee.html

[Wwcd]

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[dhill926]

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