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Delay approved (sort of)

Delay approved (sort of)

Here's a bit of breaking news: today the MPSC approved, in part, the appeal to delay a decision on phase two of the Enbridge project. The commission did not grant as much time as the intervenors requested, but they did give them more time than Enbridge wanted. So...

A little levity

Some humor on this blog has been long overdue. This is brilliant.   And here's an interesting backstory.

Citizens Speak!

Citizens Speak!

Thank you to all who attended last night's Groveland Township Board of Trustees meeting. It's not clear that they were convinced to take any action, but it was great to see residents speaking up and expressing their many and varied concerns-- and it is so important...

“It’s as if Kalamazoo never happened”

“It’s as if Kalamazoo never happened”

Interesting reports from Canada: it appears that Enbridge would rather not have the NTSB report on the Marshall spill as part of the discussion of their Canadian Northern Gateway project: This is from the Candian press. And more. Not surprisingly, Enbridge has also...

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.