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You Can’t Believe Anything Enbridge Says, Part– well, I’ve lost count
The thing about spending more than a decade documenting Enbridge's endless parade of fabrications, falsehoods, fibs, prevarications, dissemblings, distortions, deceptions, casuistries, inaccuracies, misinformationings, truth-stretchings, misleadingnesses, and...
The Great Lakes and the Rights of Water
[Note: this essay is part of a series of six essays on How to Know about Line 5. You can read the series introduction and find links to the other essays as they are posted here.] The inevitable environmental catastrophe Line 5 poses forces us to imagine a world...
Building Solidarity Along the Entirety of Line 5
[Note: this essay is part of a series of six essays on How to Know about Line 5. You can read the series introduction and find links to the other essays as they are posted here.] As someone who has just newly enlisted in the movement to help save the environment and...
(Shameless) Summer Reading Suggestion
I don't ordinarily do this sort of thing here at the blog, so I'll beg forgiveness for a little self-promotion. But if you're looking for a good beach read for the summer, might I recommend Herman Melville's Moby-Dick? I've just edited a brand new edition and it's out...
On Wildfires, Enbridge, and Line 5
The next essay in our ongoing series How to Know About Line 5 will drop soon (I hope you've read the first four!). In the meantime, as I look out at the haze and smoke and read the news that the Michigan air quality today is probably the worst it’s been since the...
Chemical Valley and the Origins of Indigenous Resistance to Line 5
[Note: this essay is part of a series of six essays on How to Know about Line 5. You can read the series introduction and find links to the other essays as they are posted here.] In 1952, Sarnia, Ontario began to undergo what a Detroit Free Press staff writer, James...