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Update on the dirt: positive news

Update on the dirt: positive news

As the rain rains and the poor, nervous dog shakes and cowers from the thunder outside, we're playing some catch-up here on the blog. Frankly, we're a little swamped with posts-that-need-to-be-posted and not quite sure which ones to type up first. Earlier today, we...

Indiana development

Indiana development

There is some interesting-- and promising-- news out of northern Indiana this week. As you may recall, the hardworking folks at Save the Dunes have been trying to ensure that the Line 6B replacement does not harm sensitive wetlands. In that effort, they have been...

News roundup: beyond 6B

News roundup: beyond 6B

While not directly about Line 6B matters, we've encountered a number of tangentially-related material the past couple of days deserving of your attention, not least of which are some follow-ups to the awful spill in Arkansas, a terrible, vivid reminder of why all of...

Hodgepodge post (Daniel is back!)

Hodgepodge post (Daniel is back!)

The Arkansas Spill More details are emerging about the awful dilibt spill down in Arkansas. Lisa Song over at Inside Climate News is on the case. And to place the spill in some context-- context which includes the Line 6B pipe moving more of the stuff through our...

Why we need pipeline safety advocates

Why we need pipeline safety advocates

We hope you're sitting down for this one. Unfortunately, some people in Arkansas are learning a horrible lesson about what happens when a pipeline carrying tar sands oil fails. This is a major reason why we do what we do here at the blog--which isn't half as much as...

A Tale of Dirt (illustrated!)

A Tale of Dirt (illustrated!)

Long time readers of this blog know (we hope) that we have always tried very hard not to dwell on our personal situation, even though we do occasionally report on what's happening around our property. But when we do, we generally do it to illustrate more general...

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.