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How Low Can Enbridge Go? Part 2

How Low Can Enbridge Go? Part 2

Yesterday, we wrote about Graham White's gratuitous comments about our Canadian friend Emily Ferguson in Jessica McDiarmid's outstanding Toronto Star series "All Along the Pipeline". As far as we know, he has yet to write to Emily with the apology he obviously owes...

Breaking News: Enbridge Oil Spill

According to reports, Enbridge has shut down its Alberta Clipper pipeline in Canada following a spill at one of its pumping stations. Enbridge claims the spill is contained and claims "no impacts to water or people." We'll see. Why should residents of Great Lakes...

How Low Can Enbridge Go?

How Low Can Enbridge Go?

Remember that time Enbridge spokesperson Larry Springer, in a ham-fisted attempt to dismiss legitimate questions about Enbridge's practices, described landowners and other ordinary citizens expressing perfectly reasonable concerns as "special interest groups"? That...

News Roundup: landowners, protestors, Line 5

News Roundup: landowners, protestors, Line 5

We're playing catch-up today; strangely, 2014 has started out rather eventfully. Earlier today, we made a few remarks about the construction accident and its aftermath that took place on David Gallagher's property. Among other things, it has yielded a rather troubling...

Construction Trouble

Construction Trouble

Oh boy. We've been trying to begin a new semester, which is always slightly frantic, while all sorts of things are happening on the Enbridge front. This has put us behind the curve somewhat; we're sorry for that. We're going to try and do some catching up today; it's...

2013 Year in Review, Final

2013 Year in Review, Final

This week, we've been running down the Top Ten Line 6B Citizens' Blog Posts/Stories of 2013. If you missed it, here is the bottom half of the list  and here are the next four. We've saved #1 for last, in a feeble and probably not-very-effective attempt to build a...

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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

Inside Climate News

Covering climate change, energy, and the environment.