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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...

Thanks

Thanks

To all of the wonderful, kind, generous, interesting, honest, smart, committed, good, decent people we have met and friends we have made (and there are a great many from Michigan and all over the country; you know who you are) as a result of this crazy, painful...

About those construction delays…

About those construction delays…

We're already working on our series of posts following last week's PS Trust conference (we think we'll start by discussing everybody's favorite federal regulatory agency!). But there's a holiday coming up, so we're not sure how soon we'll get to the first one....

Links and Resources

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.