{"id":1726,"date":"2012-12-04T09:54:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2012-12-05T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:49:27","slug":"brandon-enbridge-reach-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/12\/04\/brandon-enbridge-reach-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon, Enbridge reach agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major news out of Brandon Township: at the end of a very long and exhausting meeting last night, the new Brandon Township Board of Trustees voted to approve a (not quite finalized) agreement with Enbridge. Full details are forthcoming and we will, of course, write about them once they&#8217;re available. But this agreement effectively ends any further litigation (assuming Enbridge complies with all of the agreement&#8217;s provisions) on the part of Brandon. They won&#8217;t intervene in the POLAR suit again.<\/p>\n<p>A lot happened at the meeting and there were some interesting new developments. On the whole, we&#8217;re ambivalent about this turn of events (perhaps because we don&#8217;t have all the details yet). It&#8217;s good in some ways and perhaps not so good in others. But one thing is for sure: it&#8217;s going to take a series of posts to get through it all. Right now, we can only offer a few teasers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We heard a couple of new ugly landowner stories. Interestingly, Enbridge hopped right to it with one of them. We hope to follow up to see whether and how the situation gets resolved.<\/li>\n<li>Other Michigan townships should take note: Enbridge agreed to take some very positive steps that should also be taken with regard to EVERY township along the route. You can bet that we&#8217;ll be contacting some township supervisors.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of those positive steps, we&#8217;ll spend some time asking the obvious question: why didn&#8217;t Enbridge just do these things way back in July or so?<\/li>\n<li>Finally, we approached Tom Hodge during a break in the meeting and asked if he&#8217;d be willing to do a little Q&amp;A with us for the blog, since he&#8217;s made himself so available to the media of late. He did not jump at the opportunity. Instead, he and Enbridge General Counsel Mark Curwin said that they&#8217;re trying to figure out who the right person is for us to talk to. We&#8217;re not sure exactly what that means, but we&#8217;re pretty sure that if we have questions we&#8217;d like to ask Tom Hodge that the right person for us to talk to is&#8230; well, Tom Hodge. We&#8217;ll see what comes of this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, residents and landowners of Brandon Township: get ready for the dozers. We suspect they&#8217;re fired up and chugging already this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major news out of Brandon Township: at the end of a very long and exhausting meeting last night, the new Brandon Township Board of Trustees voted to approve a (not quite finalized) agreement with Enbridge. Full details are forthcoming and we will, of course, write about them once they&#8217;re available. 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