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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”

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...

“I don’t want their dirty money. I want my trees.”

“I don’t want their dirty money. I want my trees.”

A good article about Enbridge's use of eminent domain in this morning's Battle Creek Enquirer. Landowner Barbara Atkin speaks for many others: “Whatever they say goes. I understand we need oil. But we could have been treated better. If they just would have looked us...

A footnote on Gary Kitts

While reading David Hasemyer's excellent report in Inside Climate News yesterday, we were flummoxed by the remarks of MPSC Bureau Administrator Gary Kitts. Asked by Hasemyer about the MPSC's notification to landowners of the Line 6B project, a notice that landowners...

Mike Rogers replies

Mike Rogers replies

It only took about two months and four attempts, but yesterday I finally received a reply from U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers. It is the identical reply that my wife received about a week ago-- un-proofread prose and all ("I share your concerns with the impact of this...

Teaser

Teaser

Coming tomorrow: Our U.S. Congressman Representative Mike Rogers finally replies to us (sort of), a few words for the Executive Director of the Michigan Public Service Commission, and much more on Enbridge's openness and honesty in their dealings with stakeholders....

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Pipeline Safety Trust

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CENHS Podcast

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Petrocultures

Univeristy of Alberta’s research group on the social and politcal implications of oil and energy use.

Resilience

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