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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...

“They just haven’t been very forthcoming with us”

“They just haven’t been very forthcoming with us”

On more than one occasion over the past couple of years, Enbridge officials have told us that the Line 6B situation in Michigan is anomalous-- presumably meaning that the contention, the poor communication, the acrimony, and the miscues (on their part) are out of the...

Corrected tax forms and more

  This week, we received a corrected-- and accurate-- 1099 tax form from Enbridge, along with an accompanying letter that says they issued SIX THOUSAND incorrect forms (frankly, we're shocked that they would admit such a thing). So it appears Line 6B landowners aren't...

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Pipeline Safety Trust

A nonprofit public charity promoting pipeline safety through education and advocacy..

CENHS Podcast

From Rice University’s Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences

Petrocultures

Univeristy of Alberta’s research group on the social and politcal implications of oil and energy use.

Resilience

A journal of the environmental humanities.

ASLE

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

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Covering climate change, energy, and the environment.