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And Enbridge wonders why people don’t trust them

And Enbridge wonders why people don’t trust them

The last time we saw any Enbridge representatives-- Mark Curwin, Thomas Hodge, and Mike Ashton, to be precise-- they were primed for action. This was at a Brandon Township Board of Trustees meeting last December where Enbridge was bound and determined to finalize an...

News Roundup

News Roundup

Some interesting articles have appeared over the past couple days. Over at Inside Climate News, their crack staff of reporters continues to do great work. Lisa Song has two excellent articles. The first is on the MPSC's phase two approval. A couple of choice quotes:...

What’s cooking

What’s cooking

After a quiet stretch on the Line 6B front, things seem to have begun to rumble a bit lately-- mainly because of the MPSC phase two decision. So we've been as busy here at the blog as we've been in a little while. In fact, we hope you've had a chance to look at our...

Vote Wallace!

Vote Wallace!

It's no secret that we're big fans of Beth Wallace of the National Wildlife Federation; she's one of the many fine people it's been our good fortune to get to know since Enbridge entered our lives. Beth is a dogged advocate for Great Lakes region conservation and the...

Enbridge Re-writes Michigan Law

Enbridge Re-writes Michigan Law

Phase Two Proceedings, Part 3.1 In part 3 of our current series on the MPSC, we told you a little about the career background of Theresa Sheets, the Administrative Law Judge appointed to oversee Enbridge's phase two application. While we think that background is...

Shocking news: legislators speak out!

Shocking news: legislators speak out!

Back in September, we attempted to formulate the problems we have with Enbridge's Line 6B project in a single, succinct sentence. We came up with this: Enbridge has run roughshod over the citizens of the state of Michigan and our state elected officials have stood by...

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.