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“Empty Promises”

“Empty Promises”

A few interesting news items this week have got our gears turning a little-- not the least of which is this chilling story about PHMSA in Inside Climate News today (you'll recall that we've had some things to say about PHMSA in the recent past). If we can find the...

“Now! Now!”

“Now! Now!”

If you missed it, we kicked off our new series on "Landowner Stories" yesterday. (We posted a general introduction to the series the day before that.) Marty and Patti Burke's story is a moving one. Today, we bring you a second installment. And while we don't plan to...

“The Enbridge Effect”

“The Enbridge Effect”

Today, we are proud to launch our new series: "Landowner Stories," which will bring you the reflections of Line 6B landowners along Phase One-- in their own words! Our first installment comes from Marty and Patti Burke, who live in Oceola Township. Their house is...

Our New Series: Landowner Stories

Our New Series: Landowner Stories

This week, we're going to relinquish a little bit of content-control of this blog in order to bring you a new, lengthy series: real stories from real Line 6B landowners. We're going to let landowners tell you their own stories about their experience with Enbridge in...

Put Up or Shut Up

Put Up or Shut Up

We apologize for the silence around here the past week or so. We took a much needed vacation over to the paradise that is Northern Michigan, spending lots of time at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. As always, it was energizing and a reminder of Michigan's...

How NOT to write about Line 6B

How NOT to write about Line 6B

As we mentioned earlier today-- and discussed earlier this week-- Enbridge has suddenly, inexplicably, decided to woo the press with a bit of pipeline construction stagecraft now that phase two of the Line 6B "replacement" is in full swing. Tom Hodge has been cast in...

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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.