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Slightly sentimental post about participatory democracy
We interrupt our ordinary programming for one brief expression of gratitude: While we understand all too well that most of the time (way too much time), brainpower, researching, hand-wringing, worrying, hair-tearing, phone-calling, letter-writing, and psychic and...
Reactivation? Let’s talk about Portal Link
Last week, we posted our account of the "workshop" meeting between Enbridge representatives and the Brandon Township Board of Trustees. Much of what we touched upon in the post deserves further scrutiny and elaboration and we hope to devote more time and space to...
More on the Groveland meeting
The Brandon paper The Citizen continues to follow the story. What would we do without them? The money quote is from Katy Bodenmiller, talking about our state elected officials: "They just don't want to talk about it. But in the light of the Marshall spill, [U.S....
“Line list” vigilance
A very important note to landowners: all of us should have agreed to a "line list" of items regarding construction on our property (including such things as how to stack or dispose of timber, the installation of temporary fencing, easement access, work hours, and any...
Brandon workshop postscript
My favorite moment at last night's Brandon Township workshop with Enbridge: Beth Duman's impassioned speech about how Enbridge is solely responsible for sparking citizen resistance. If they'd treated landowners decently and respectfully from the start-- and used their...
Report on the Brandon “workshop”
We're still not done with Larry Springer's astonishing statement in Wednesday's Inside Climate News article. We hope to return to that series later today. We're taking a break from it to report on last night's very interesting meeting between Enbridge representatives...
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