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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
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”
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...
A Small Victory
We have some good news to report on the Michigan legislative front-- of a minor sort. You might recall that at the end of last month, we had ourselves pretty worked up about some seemingly minor changes proposed by state lawmakers to the Crude Oil and Petroleum Act....
Minor tax update and more
We're assuming that by now, all Line 6B landowners have received their completely incorrect 1099 tax forms. Since we first mentioned this extraordinary error-- strong and disturbing evidence for theory #3 as an explanation for why Enbridge can't do better-- we have...





