{"id":1592,"date":"2014-11-14T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2014-11-14T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:19:09","slug":"canadians-stay-strong-against-the-transcanada-pipeline-ben-gostschall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Canadians, Stay Strong Against the TransCanada Pipeline\u00a0|\u00a0Ben Gostschall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/ben-gostschall-\/transcanada-pipeline_b_6148654.html\">Canadians, Stay Strong Against the TransCanada Pipeline\u00a0|\u00a0Ben Gostschall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u200eI am first and foremost a rancher. I am now also an anti-pipeline activist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I was 10 years old when I started my own herd of cattle on my family&#8217;s ranch in Nebraska. I learned early on from our 75-year history of ranching about the value of hard work. I learned the value of our land and water that sustains our herd and our family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">You may ask, how does a rancher become an activist?.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I was at a State Department hearing in 2010 when I first saw the names of my friends, family and neighbours on TransCanada&#8217;s proposed Keystone XL pipeline map for Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The pipeline was proposed to pass right through the Sandhills, a unique and fragile ecosystem that overlies the Ogallala, a critically important aquifer, at a vulnerable shallow recharge zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians, Stay Strong Against the TransCanada Pipeline\u00a0|\u00a0Ben Gostschall. \u200eI am first and foremost a rancher. 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