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New Line 6B Set to Start Up

New Line 6B Set to Start Up

When T.S. Eliot wrote that "April is the cruellest month," he was not speaking metaphorically. It's been plenty cruel in Michigan generally and certainly here at our place (we won't bore you with details), which is much of what accounts for the lack of output here at...

Tar Sands Forum at Notre Dame

Tar Sands Forum at Notre Dame

Greetings! We're sorry we've been neglectful around here the past few weeks. It's been an eventful end-of-winter to say the least-- we won't bore you with any details. We do have a fair amount of new to update you on and we suspect that Enbridge is thinking about...

The Enbridge “replacement project” playbook

The Enbridge “replacement project” playbook

As we mentioned earlier today, Enbridge just announced an enormous new project: the "replacement" of over 1,000 miles of new pipeline all the way from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin in the U.S. The project is yet another part of Enbridge's strategy to...

Guest Post: Reflections on Line 9

Guest Post: Reflections on Line 9

Today is a big day up in Canada. As we noted earlier this morning, the National Energy Board will announce its decision on the Line 9 reversal project this afternoon. To mark this occasion, we are pleased to bring you these reflections form our friend Emily Ferguson,...

News Roundup: MICATS free and more

Good news from Ingham County, the three Michigan CATS who have been in jail, remanded needlessly and gratuitously by a chest-thumpin judge, have been released. At their sentencing yesterday, they were given probation for a year. We're glad that these committed...

Rich Adams is Back

Rich Adams is Back

On Saturday, a Canadian television report on Enbridge's proposed Line 9 reversal in Canada got us thinking (yet again!) about Enbridge's habit of alienating landowners and municipalities by failing to do what one would think is the easiest thing in the world: just...

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