Typically, the end of a year and the beginning of another is a time for some reflection. In fact, over the break we were thinking of compiling some “Top Ten” lists in the ordinary “Year in Review” sort of way (a totally unoriginal idea, we realize). Perhaps we still will if we can get to it soon, before the idea has gone completely stale.
Anyway, here is one fun fact that came out of our preliminary looking back over the year: this blog is almost exactly six months old (honestly, it feels older). And in that time, we generated 251 posts (we kicked things off with Marshall, of course!). That averages out to 41 posts a month– more than one a day! Why mention this? Well, partly to say (apologetically) that there is no way we can continue on that furious pace. Honestly, it’s not good for our sanity and, truth be told, not all that good for our “regular” career, either. So while we have no intention of giving the blog up– far too much still demands our attention and the fact is that we’ve grown rather devoted to you, our readers and new friends– we will be posting less frequency in the near term, a few times a week, not a few times a day. We hope you won’t mind if the pace slows!
But speaking of things that still require our attention and vigilance: phase two continues to make its way through the MPSC approval process and it probably won’t be wrong before that approval is granted. But there have been some interesting filings lately (last month). We’ve been looking them over and plan to make this the basis of a new series. Stay tuned for that.
There’s also last month’s “Construction Update” newsletter. We’ve got some things to say about that as well. Plus, it will afford another opportunity to crack a few jokes about Enbridge mascot “Dr. Michael Milan.”
Also, judging from all the new flags decorating our road, it looks like construction activity is about to heat up around here. We’ll watch and take photos.
Finally, there’s a bit of unfinished business from last year we haven’t given up on: the long promised post on the environmental panel at the PS Trust conference, what we learned about Line 6B “exceeding” federal regulations, and a few other things we’ve been mulling over for a long time, like our theory about how Enbridge seems to still be living in the 20th century. We’re continuing to keep our eye on things down in Indiana as well.
We hope you’ll stick around for all of it!