Landowners with property affected by the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline are environmentalists’ newest allies in the fight against the facility’s construction, according to a new Reuters report. The Bold Nebraska group is seeking to create new roadblocks for the pipeline, which has received the green light from state regulators from an amended route that would reduce environmental impact. “We hope to begin the education process with landowners so they understand this is a lifetime easement for a one-time payment,” Jane Kleeb of Bold Nebraska told Reuters. “We aim to engage at least 20 percent of the new landowners in the legal landowner group.” Already, 100 landowners with property along the pipeline’s new route have signed up against the project, the activist group says. Since TransCanada originally proposed Keystone XL a decade ago, U.S. oil production has doubled , from just over 5 million barrels per day to almost 10 […]