Yesterday, Brandon Township filed a “motion to intervene” and a “complaint in intervention” in the POLAR lawsuit in federal court. We have copies of both in our possession and, in our non-legal-professional opinion, the latter is excellent. Not only does it seek to enforce the local consent requirement of the Michigan constitution. It also seeks relief from the court (that is, an injunction against Enbridge) until Enbridge complies with the township’s Woodlands ordinance and other township ordinances.
If we can find some time, we’ll try to post more details. But there are plenty of other matters we also want to get to:
Apparently, we were mistaken about the absence of an Enbridge ad in the Free Press this week. We can’t explain why we couldn’t find it in the copy we bought, but we now have a transcript of it, though not the actual ad. You won’t be surprised to learn that we’ve got plenty to say about it (as we have with the others).
We’ll wrap up our series on our conversation with Enbridge VP Mark Sitek. In our view, our last conversation was on the whole very disappointing (and disheartening), though it was instructive in important ways. And there is one tiny piece of reasonably good news to report.
The Pipeline Safety Trust conference is this week. There will surely be plenty to report.