{"id":1816,"date":"2012-12-12T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:50:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T22:50:49","slug":"one-of-our-new-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/12\/12\/one-of-our-new-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"One of our new heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pipeline companies have a way of turning ordinary people into activists. Yesterday, we learned about one of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/12\/11\/michael-bishop-keystone-xl-texas_n_2278463.html\" target=\"_blank\">with the news that a Texas judge halted construction on the Keystone XL pipeline<\/a>. An ordinary citizen, Michael Bishop, taught himself a bit of law and went to court, producing a very clever argument. It worked (at least temporarily).<\/p>\n<p>Bishop&#8217;s argument, challenging whether tar sands oil (or &#8220;dilbit) is in fact &#8220;crude oil&#8221; as defined by Texas and federal law, put us in mind of a not-dissimilar argument some clever folks advanced here in Michigan a few months back. <a href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/09\/22\/crude-oil-or-petroleum-a-legal-thicket\/\" target=\"_blank\">We wrote about it at length here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And our friend Anthony Swift of the National Resources Defense Council <a href=\"http:\/\/switchboard.nrdc.org\/blogs\/aswift\/texas_judge_asks_if_bitumen_is.html\" target=\"_blank\">has a new post about the Texas decision<\/a>. It reminds us of Anthony&#8217;s coverage a few months back of how the IRS handles the question of whether dilbit is different from ordinary crude. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Three cheers for Michael Bishop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pipeline companies have a way of turning ordinary people into activists. Yesterday, we learned about one of these with the news that a Texas judge halted construction on the Keystone XL pipeline. An ordinary citizen, Michael Bishop, taught himself a bit of law and went to court, producing a very clever argument. It worked (at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beyond-6b","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}