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Cass County Work Update

Cass County Work Update

Last week, we brought you the latest in our series of "Landowner Stories," this one from our friend Patricia Maurice over in Cass County. Enbridge has been working furiously over there, often late into the night and making all sorts of terrible racket. In the process,...

Breaking News: Michigan Pols Speak Out!

Breaking News: Michigan Pols Speak Out!

As longtime readers of this blog know, we think that the silence and inaction of Michigan's elected officials at both the state and federal levels in the three years since the Marshall spill has been shameful. In fact, the seeming indifference of one prominent...

News of the Weird, part 4

News of the Weird, part 4

A long time ago, we started a series of "weird" Line 6B news items. Honestly, we kind of forgot about it. But an odd report from the Times of Northwest Indiana has given us reason to revive the series: Apparently, a bunch of construction workers got into something of...

“Can we ever believe anything Enbridge says?”

“Can we ever believe anything Enbridge says?”

While Enbridge has decided to suspend construction activity over on the east side of Michigan, they are evidently continuing work to the west. We've been hearing from some more frustrated landowners over the past couple of weeks. A good example of that frustration--...

Odds and Ends

It's the end of the semester for us, which is why we've been a little quiet this past week. There are all sort of final tasks to attend to this time of year, not least of which are piles of student papers to grade. Wish us luck that they are all brilliant and...

Tough Month for Enbridge

Tough Month for Enbridge

November wasn't really Enbridge's month. And no, we're not just talking about another poor showing at the Pipeline Safety Trust conference (we're working on bringing you much more on that!). We're talking about the news this week that both the MDEQ (go figure!) and...

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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 groupĀ on the social and politcal implicationsĀ 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.