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Construction Question

Sorry we've been out of commission the past week or so! That pesky job keeps intruding... We'll do some catch-up blogging this weekend. In the meantime, a semi-urgen question if anyone is able to respond quickly: Is there any current construction happening over in...

News of the weird, part 1

News of the weird, part 1

This week (or so) is just about (we don't remember the precise day) the one year anniversary of the day an Enbridge ROW agent showed up at our door (yes, armed with condemnation papers-- even though at that time Enbridge had not technically been given that power yet....

Thursday morning webinar

Thursday morning webinar

Sorry to post this a little late, but this webinar, conducted by our Hoosier friend Nathan Pavlovic of Save the Dunes might be of interest to some of you. We plan to attend. From Nate: Yet another government report, released at the end of last month, has raised...

MPSC: Giving away the store

MPSC: Giving away the store

This post will likely be the last in our series about the MPSC phase two proceedings. If you missed our previous installments-- where we discussed the shallow analysis of their public engineer, the hard work the MPSC staff attorney performed on behalf of Enbridge, the...

A few more KXL = 6B thoughts

A few more KXL = 6B thoughts

A few follow-up items to this morning's ruminations on the hot Keystone XL debate:  It probably won't come as a surprise to anyone to learn that while Michigan legislators (with only one or two notable exceptions) have been sleepy and silent about the Line 6B...

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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.