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Important Information for ET Rover Landowners

Important Information for ET Rover Landowners

Today in the comments section of one of our posts, a reader reports that ET Rover is or will soon begin making cash offers to landowners to acquire easements from them. We cannot verify this. But it's not at all hard to believe. Pipeline companies acquire easement...

Enbridge’s Latest Dirty Trick

Enbridge’s Latest Dirty Trick

Enbridge is up to some dirty tricks. Before we explain, we need to share something positive. A few months back, we had some fairly serious problems on our property related to pipeline construction that needed to be addressed. After more phone calls and emails than...

Enbridge Wants to be Done; They’re Not

Enbridge Wants to be Done; They’re Not

The news from Enbridge in Michigan this week is that they've finished installing the new Line 6B, wrapping up construction work in the eastern part of the state and beginning restoration. As those of us on Phase One learned, to Enbridge, that pretty much means they...

Rover Roundup: Handling Misinformation

Rover Roundup: Handling Misinformation

A "debacle," a "one-sided show and tell," a "well-orchestrated disaster"-- this is how attendees at the latest round of ET Rover open houses have described the events, which have provided landowners and concerned citizens with very little helpful information and...

ET Rover: The Basics

ET Rover: The Basics

As the ET Rover route has (apparently) shifted to the north, we've noticed lots of new traffic at the blog, likely seeking more information-- since ET Rover doesn't appear to be providing much. We are happy to try and offer whatever little bit of assistance we can for...

Breaking News: ET Rover Gets Aggressive

Breaking News: ET Rover Gets Aggressive

If you read this blog diligently (we know there are precious few of you who do!), you may have noticed recently a fascinating and very troubling conversation in the comments section of our story about the re-route of Rover. There, one of our readers tells of some...

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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.