The crack staff of journalists at Inside Climate News— this time, Lisa Song– continues to do outstanding work. This morning comes another excellent article. It seems that Enbridge is not too keen about having to perform more cleanup of the Kalamazoo River. Not surprisingly, that doesn’t sit too well with our friend Deb Miller, on point as always:

We were promised this would be made whole, that the river would be made better than it was before…In my mind, it comes down to a bottom line. They don’t want to put the money into dredging.”

On the bright side, Enbridge did recently write a big, fat check to the Calhoun County Trailway Alliance. So that’s something.

We were also interested in this story, of a religious retreat center that recently withdrew its petition to intervene in Phase Two. Why? Well, pretty much because of Enbridge’s overwhelming power and MPSC complicity (about which, by the way, we’ve had some things to say recently):

“It became really quite clear that [Enbridge] was sure of getting a permit,” [Center director Naomi] Wenger said. She and her colleagues felt anything they did would simply delay the inevitable. Lack of resources to hire a lawyer was also a factor.

Finally, while not directly related to Enbridge or Line 6B, we found this New York Times article on some of the unintended consequences of oil production in North Dakota rather alarming. (And you know whose pipelines transport much of that oil.) We can’t help but note a strange omission from the article, though: couldn’t some of those oil companies just offer health care to their workers?!