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[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...

[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...

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...

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...

[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...

[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.] Since 2021, articles and discussions of Line 5 have begun to reference an obscure treaty...