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Phase 2 MPSC hearing
We spent a little time skimming the transcript of Tuesday's MPSC hearing on phase 2. It consists largely of Enbridge attorney Michael Asthon insisting-- by way of objections to questions asked to Enbridge employees-- that almost nothing whatsoever is relevant to the...
Grab bag post: federal case and more
A few brief items of notes this morning: Federal suit: The latest news on the POLAR lawsuit in federal court is that Brandon Township, which on Nov. 5 filed a motion to join the suit, has also filed a motion to expedite a ruling on their filing (as of now, they are...
PS Trust Report, Part 2
We kicked off our series of reports on last week's Pipeline Safety Trust conference in New Orleans by describing some of the response from attendees to our presentation (if you haven't seen it yet, you can still watch it here). In that report, we described Enbridge's...
Unintended consequences
We live in a crazy world. The Precision Pipeline flag blunder story received a fair amount of attention yesterday. After the Detroit Free Press printed the photo, a handful of other news outlets picked it up (for instance, here and here and here) and it made some...
Veterans Day Follow-up
The Detroit Free Press has a story this morning on the Precision Pipeline flag faux-pas. Beth Duman, as always, brings the heat and Enbridge's Jason Manshum issues a canned apology. But the best part of the story is when Manshum says: Manshum said the company respects...
Report on federal court hearing
So preoccupied with other things (mainly, the PS Trust conference), we totally forgot to post an update on last week's hearing in federal court. You may recall that the hearing was set to resolve the issue of whether POLAR has "standing" to sue Enbridge for...
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