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News roundup

News roundup

Okay, well, we aren't quite as back as we thought we were. Turns out, there were a few more end-of-the-semester duties to deal with this week and then a bit of holiday travels. We're back in the the land of our childhood and can steal some time to do a bit of catching...

We survived! We’re back!

We survived! We’re back!

Over the past several days, we fought and clawed and wriggled our way out from under a mountain of student papers. It wasn't easy and at times a little painful, but we got through it and we're finally breathing fresh air again. You will be happy, or perhaps completely...

Just a thought (again)

Just a thought (again)

To the extent that Enbridge gives any thought to us here at the Line 6B Citizens' Blog (and they probably don't think about us very much), we would guess that they find us rather antagonistic, combative, overly-critical, possibly even unfair. But the truth is, we're...

One of our new heroes

One of our new heroes

Pipeline companies have a way of turning ordinary people into activists. Yesterday, we learned about one of these with the news that a Texas judge halted construction on the Keystone XL pipeline. An ordinary citizen, Michael Bishop, taught himself a bit of law and...

Enbridge’s Freep ads, one last time

Enbridge’s Freep ads, one last time

Remember those crazy Detroit Free Press ads Enbridge ran back in late October? We miss them. We had quite a bit of fun slicing and dicing them. It was pretty easy pickin's, too. First, they tried to seduce us by featuring an Enbridge employee who only served to remind...

(Not so) Shocking Brandon development

(Not so) Shocking Brandon development

No sooner had we finished up our latest post about Enbridge's apparently congenital inability to deal with stakeholders straightforwardly than we were provided with yet another illustration of the phenomenon in the form of the latest news from Brandon Township. Sadly,...

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Pipeline Safety Trust

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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.

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The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

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