Framing a Movement

In the earliest days of the Keystone xl pipeline proposal, Art Tanderup was planting soybeans in his fields when a representative from TransCanada came knocking on his door. Tanderup and his wife, Helen, the farmers from Neligh who retired to their family acreage after careers in teaching and education service, had suspected this day would come. Two weeks before, Art had seen a headline in the Omaha World Herald that instantly caught his attention—announcing TransCanada’s proposed new routing for the Keystone xl Pipeline. A map featured in the story showed the pipeline’s routing as being extremely close to his