Can you believe it? This week marks the one year anniversary of the Line 6B Citizens’ Blog. One full year! Can you believe it? We are finally growing up!
Well, technically, we launched the blog on June 27, but it was really the middle of July that we started blogging in earnest– even though we had no idea what we were doing and sort of floundered around unsure of what to say, clueless about blogging conventions (which we still don’t really understand that well), and shaky with the technology. It took us quite a while to find our sea legs. In fact, our early posts, like, say, this one, weren’t really posts at all.
Anyway, in our minds, we associate the launch of the blog with our annual vacation in Minnesota, where we are sitting right this very moment (in the sweltering heat, alas!). That’s when, one year ago, we made our impromptu visit to the Enbridge offices in Superior, Wisconsin. That’s when we first started reading the horror story that is the NTSB report on Marshall— the experience that changed everything for us. That’s when we had our disturbing and now-famous pseudo-correspondence with Michigan U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, landing our better half in the Los Angeles Times. Not once, but twice.
So to kick off our birthday celebration, we made a return visit to the Enbridge offices. But this time we didn’t pop in for a chat. We’re quite certain that Doug Aller and Mike Harris don’t want (or aren’t willing) to talk with us. But here we are; Sam got to get out of the car this time:
Over the next week or so, we’re going to reflect upon the past year, re-visit some of our “greatest hits” (if you’ll indulge us), and look toward some new directions for this blog (most of which will have to do with some of Enbridge’s new ventures).
So light some candles, hang some decorations, bake a cake– but no gifts, please!– and join us in celebration. We’ve decided to keep this blogging thing going for a while longer!