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Hope and inspiration

Hope and inspiration

Take a look at the progress that's been made by the persistent folks at Bold Nebraska on the Keystone XL matter. The situation there, you'll see, is extraordinarily similar to ours-- from the lethargy of elected officials right down to basic questions about High...

More good news for landowners

More good news for landowners

This just in: two additional condemnation suits brought against landowners in Oakland County court have been dismissed-- this time by a different judge than the one who ordered the dismissal last week. The grounds for the dismissal are similar (Enbridge overreaching),...

Enbridge flouts yet another local ordinance

Enbridge flouts yet another local ordinance

Regular readers of this blog know that our concerns about the way Enbridge conducts its business are many and varied. But if we had to state our objections to the Line 6B project in just one sentence, it would be this: Enbridge has run roughshod over the citizens of...

Fundraising: please help

Fundraising: please help

Another request from our friends at the POLAR legal defense fund: if you've been keeping up with events, you know that some of the legal tussles have begun to heat up. POLAR's suit, for instance, appears to be heading to federal court. Other legal challenges are...

Crude oil or petroleum? A legal thicket

Crude oil or petroleum? A legal thicket

Before I even begin this post, an apology and/or warning: here we're going to tackle some sticky legal questions, some of them theoretical. I fully recognize that lots of folks might not have much of a taste for the kind of jurisprudential nerdiness that is about to...

Tiny news roundup

Tiny news roundup

You would think that with all that's happened over the past week-- the Brandon "workshop" and Enbridge construction activity in Brandon despite the fact that the resolution issue remains unresolved, the dismissal in Oakland County Circuit Court of an Enbridge...

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.