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Part 2: Relations This week I started a new series of posts in response to last Friday’s MPSC decision approving Enbridge’s application to relocate a portion of Line 5 inside a tunnel beneath the bedrock in the Straits of Mackinac. The decision has produced in me a...

Ten years ago in 2013—I really can’t believe it’s been a full decade—I wrote a series of posts in response to a Michigan Public Service Commission case involving Enbridge. At issue then was the “replacement” of Line 6B across the state and at the time, I’m sure I...

Today, in an inexplicable and astonishingly short-sighted decision, the Michigan Public Service Commission approved Enbridge's Line 5 tunnel scheme. I'm still digesting and thinking and reading about the decision, so more after I've had some time. In the meantime, I...

The thing about spending more than a decade documenting Enbridge's endless parade of fabrications, falsehoods, fibs, prevarications, dissemblings, distortions, deceptions, casuistries, inaccuracies, misinformationings, truth-stretchings, misleadingnesses, and...

[Note: this essay is part of a series of six essays on How to Know about Line 5. You can read the series introduction and find links to the other essays as they are posted here.] The inevitable environmental catastrophe Line 5 poses forces us to imagine a world...

[Note: this essay is part of a series of six essays on How to Know about Line 5. You can read the series introduction and find links to the other essays as they are posted here.] As someone who has just newly enlisted in the movement to help save the environment and...