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A pipeline miracle!

A pipeline miracle!

Yesterday, we experienced the near impossible. No, Enbridge did not announce that they're going to remove the old Line 6B and issue an apology to all landowners for behaving callously toward them. That, too, would be a miracle. No, instead, after numerous...

Why Enbridge can’t do better, part 2

Why Enbridge can’t do better, part 2

Yesterday, we launched a new series devoted to the question, why can't Enbridge do better? We're trying to figure out what causes them to continue to alienate landowners and to fail to live up to the values they profess publicly. The reason we're thinking about this...

Why Enbridge can’t do better, part 1

Why Enbridge can’t do better, part 1

In an earlier post, we (longwindedly) pondered the question: why can't Enbridge do better when it comes to cultivating amicable, productive relationships with landowners? Over and over they fail to do the simplest of things that would go a long way to fostering such...

Why can’t Enbridge do better?

Why can’t Enbridge do better?

This week, while we've watched Enbridge's construction crews return to our property, which is now once again torn up, strewn with long sections of pipe and heavy equipment and also, thanks to the weather, a big, sloggy, muddy mess, we've been stewing a little. And...

This eventful week

This eventful week

What a week! After a few weeks of relative silence (and almost complete silence from us-- we're sorry!), things Enbridge-related exploded this week. It started Monday morning with a harmless phone call to an Enbridge land agent to try and get some simple information...

Déjà vu

Here is a picture of our backyard taken on November 5, 2012. The picture below it was taken today-- more than seven months later....

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 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.