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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...

Enbridge takes some lumps

There's a can't-miss post from the always-smart-and-worth-reading Josh Mogerman over at one of our favorite blogs, the NRDC's Switchboard. Head on over and take a look; it's excellent. (We even get a little shout-out, for which we are most grateful.) And we hate to...

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