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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

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...

Conversation with an Enbridge VP, Part the Last

Conversation with an Enbridge VP, Part the Last

We're continuing to play catch-up with all of our unfinished business around here, while also re-visiting our notes from the Pipeline Safety Trust conference (the subject of our recently launched new series!). Among other things, we're still scratching our heads over...

Last week’s Freep ad (updated!)

Last week’s Freep ad (updated!)

Now that we've returned from the Pipeline Safety Trust conference-- we've already launched our new series of reports on it!-- we hope to try and catch up on some overdue posts. First up is the most recent ad Enbridge ran in the Detroit Free Press (and elsewhere, we...

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Pipeline Safety Trust

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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

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