Latest foe of Keystone XL pipeline is former nuclear waste site activist
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Paul Hammel
LINCOLN — A leading opponent of a nuclear waste dump proposed two decades ago in Boyd County has joined the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline.
Lowell Fisher, who conducted a high-profile hunger strike against the nuclear dump, wrote a nonbinding resolution, passed Monday by the Boyd County Planning Commission, stating that the county doesn't want the crude-oil pipeline.
Fisher, a 72-year-old rancher who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1994, said he had a guilty conscience after initially deciding to stay out of the pipeline controversy. Upon further consideration, he said, the pipeline holds more negatives than positives for his rural north-central Nebraska county.
The resolution states that the pipeline “shall not cross” the county, citing Boyd County's “proven history of resisting corporate exploitation and pollution.”
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