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“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...

Comstock tells Enbridge: “No.”

While Enbridge works hard this week to woo the press (much more on this coming up later), they're also taking some lumps. Comstock Township, like the EPA last week, has considered Enbridge's request and then told them "no." Late last night the Township Planning...

Getting Gallaghered

Getting Gallaghered

If you've been paying attention, you've probably noticed that there has been a flurry of Enbridge Line 6B coverage this week. A great deal of it centers upon the harrowing situation at the house of our friend Dave Gallagher in Ceresco (and more and more). And the rest...

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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.