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Breaking: Another Enbridge Screw-up
This just in: the state of Michigan has terminated the contract of the firm hired to perform a risk assessment of Line 5. The reason? Conflict of interest. From the MDEQ press release: Within the past month, the state’s project team became aware that an...
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
On the heels of recent news that Enbridge has long been in violation of safety requirements for its operation of Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac, our tireless friends over at the National Wildlife Federation have released the latest video...
A Bad Week for Democracy in Michigan
You probably won't hear about it much in the news, given recent events in the national political arena, but two very bad regulatory decisions were made here in Michigan this week that ought to alarm you. Both of them could significantly weaken local authority—like...
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
We’re back! We’ve got a spiffy new look, a new mission (details below), and starting right now in this very sentence I’m even dropping, for good, the rhetorical first person plural. Yep, things have changed during the eighteen or so months this blog has been dormant....
Enbridge Community Meetings
As many of you know, postcards from Enbridge have been arriving in the mail this week announcing a "Community Meeting." In fact, Enbridge is (has been) holding a number of these meetings around the region this spring (details below). Understandably, this has people...
More on the Marshall Spill “Settlement”
As we reported last week, the Department of Justice and Enbridge have reached finally reached a settlement in the Marshall spill. For reasons we described in our post, we don't think the settlement is at all satisfactory. And we're not alone. In an excellent Smart Pig...
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