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POLAR website launched

POLAR website launched

The non-profit legal defense fund POLAR (Protect Our Land and Rights) has launched its new website. Concerned citizens are invited to join and donate. Check them out here.

Line 6B in context: this is how it’s done

Line 6B in context: this is how it’s done

A fantastic article in this morning's Los Angeles Times by Matt Pearce and Neela Banerjee-- and not just because we make a brief appearance in it. Check out the great lead paragraph: A major rival to the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline project is vastly...

NPR tar sands story

NPR tar sands story

NPR's "All Things Considered" just did an excellent story on tar sands oil (or "dilbit," as it is often called). They even take a visit to Kalamazoo. Remember, this is the stuff that will be flowing through the new Line...

Enbridge flouts local ordinances

Enbridge flouts local ordinances

In Part 2 of our series on Core Issues for Landowners a couple of week's ago, we wrote about the issue of local consent-- the requirement, according to the state constitution and the Highway Act, that Enbridge seek consent from local municipalities before beginning...

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.