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Major Breaking News: Brandon Township steps up again!

We just returned from the Brandon Township board of trustees meeting where the smart, principled, courageous trustees passed a resolution stating that they would take whatever legal steps necessary to require Enbridge to seek local consent as required by the Michigan...

Note on construction vigilance- and a teaser

Note on construction vigilance- and a teaser

Oh boy. There's so much happening right now, so much to write about, that we're feeling a little overwhelmed. We're not even halfway through our series on our conversation with VP Mark Sitek. And we need to measure Jennifer Smith's account of what happened in Marshall...

More on the pipeline wall thickness matter in Indiana

More on the pipeline wall thickness matter in Indiana

Last week, we noted a curious situation with regard to some seemingly conflicting remarks from Lake County, Indiana officials and Enbridge spokespersons about pipeline wall thicknesses in Lake County. The questions that remain ambiguous are: (1) whether Enbridge is...

Delays in Indiana

Delays in Indiana

There's a VERY interesting story today out of the News Dispatch in Michigan City, Indiana. Among other things, we're wondering why Enbridge didn't think the securing of permits prior to construction was as important in Michigan as it apparently is Indiana (although...

This week’s Enbridge ad

This week’s Enbridge ad

You would think at this point we would cease to be surprised at Enbridge's baffling public communications. Yet they continue to astound us. That is certainly the case with the latest ad they've published in the Detroit Free Press. They appear to be utterly incapable...

Wall thickness curiosity in Indiana

Wall thickness curiosity in Indiana

This one is a bit of a head scratcher and we'd like to get to the bottom of it: The Gary, Indiana Post-Tribune reported this week that, apparently, Enbridge has agreed to increase the thickness of the pipe throughout [Lake County, Indiana] instead of just at the...

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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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