Some good news from our friends in Indiana, courtesy of Nicole Barker, Executive Director of Save the Dunes. It illustrates the fact that with enough public awareness and pressure, Enbridge will respond.
I am pleased to share that I just received word that Enbridge has agreed to present their proposed 6B pipeline project work (Phases I & II) at the upcoming Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission’s (NIRPC) Environmental Management and Policy Committee (EMPC) meeting on Thursday, September 6th. The meeting is at NIPRC offices, 6100 Southport Road, Portage, IN. The meeting normally runs from 9am to 10:30am but often goes a bit longer.Save the Dunes and many other agencies, nonprofits, businesses and other organizations are part of EMPC, so this is an exciting and quite balanced forum in which to hear about the work.I have respectfully requested all agencies tasked with review/approval of the project to attend. The invite list included US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Army Corps of Engineers, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, and several others.Thanks to everyone who has signed our petition and demonstrated interest in this important project. Please pass on to others who may be interested as well.Also, we signed a separate petition to have DNR hold a hearing related to their stream crossings. They did schedule a hearing, but it is solely limited to construction in a floodway. It is on Thursday, August 23rd at 4pm Central Time at the Valparaiso Public Library, meeting room B, 103 Jefferson Street, Valparaiso, IN. See attached flier for more information about that meeting.