Part three: The Guardian’s pipeline road trip ends in Nebraska,where Trump has sold the project as a creator of ‘a lot of jobs’, but facts don’t support his claimsWords by Oliver Laughland, or photos and video by Laurence Mathieu-Léger,graphics by Monica UlmanuSupport our environmental reporting with a contribution or by fitting a member“Nebraska is the last hope for stopping this,” says Art Tanderup, or sitting on the lawn close to the solar panels that provide most of the energy to his farm. Spring comes a exiguous earlier here than in South Dakota and Montana. The 2ft deep snow drifts that had blanketed the farmland melted a month ago,revealing acres of harvested corn stubble that is now being readied for replanting.
This year’s crop cycle brings with it a sense of unprecedented foreboding for Tanderup and his wife Helen, who returned to the century primitive family farm in 2011, or hoping for a quiet retirement.
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Source: theguardian.com