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Brandon intervenes in federal court

Brandon intervenes in federal court

Yesterday, Brandon Township filed a "motion to intervene" and a  "complaint in intervention" in the POLAR lawsuit in federal court. We have copies of both in our possession and, in our non-legal-professional opinion, the latter is excellent. Not only does it seek to...

Phone call footnote

Just got off the telephone with Enbridge VP Mark Sitek again. We appreciate his time and the fact that he is at least willing to face an actual landowner and hear us out; we can't say the same about everybody at Enbridge. With that said, with one small exception, it...

Our conversation with an Enbridge VP, Part 4

Among other things, we're working this week on our upcoming presentation at the Pipeline Safety Trust conference, where we're eager for the chance to talk with other landowners, regulators, and industry personnel. We're looking forward to listening and learning....

Brandon: Enbridge not sincere

Brandon: Enbridge not sincere

We've said it before and we'll say it again: no local reporter has done such excellent work on the Line 6B story as Susan Bromley of the local paper the Brandon Citizen (why The Oakland Press, for instance, has completely ignored Brandon Township we will never...

This week’s ad: plea!

Well, it's as if the new Enbridge ad is deliberately avoiding me (kind of like Lands and Right-of-Way Project Manager Doug Aller...). We stopped at 8 or 10 different places today looking for a copy of the Detroit News-- and totally struck out. So if anybody has it and...

This week’s Enbridge ad

This week’s Enbridge ad

Three weeks ago in an ad published in the Detroit Free Press (and elsewhere), Enbridge promised: over the next four weeks we will use space in this newspaper to share project updates and to address some of [the public's] questions. . . And for two weeks, they (sort...

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 group on the social and politcal implications 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.