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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
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,...
Brandon-Enbridge agreement, Part 4
We begin this installment with a correction. You see, unlike Enbridge we do not like saying things that are not strictly true. And it appears we've been slightly wrong about one thing: On numerous occasions during the month of November, we mentioned that Enbridge had...
What’s happening
We know it's been a few days since we've posted anything. That's because it's end-of-the-semester crunch time when things get crazy. In fact, we're about to be buried under a frightening avalanche of student papers. But we're trying to steal away some time to provide...
Brandon-Enbridge agreement, Part 3
Over at the Brandon Citizen, Susan Bromley, who has covered this story like no one else, has an account of Monday's Brandon meeting and a bit more detail on the agreement. Much of it covers the items we mentioned in the second installment of this series. But we did...
“Crude Behavior”: the new NWF report
We just got off the telephone where we participated, along with a bunch of other really smart people, in our first-ever telephone press conference. It was an odd new experience and we hope we didn't sound like a blithering idiot. We'll see. The topic of the...





