{"id":1917,"date":"2013-01-08T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2013-01-08T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:05:12","slug":"what-were-working-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2013\/01\/08\/what-were-working-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;re working on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, the end of a year and the beginning of another is a time for some reflection. In fact, over the break we were thinking of compiling some &#8220;Top Ten&#8221; lists in the ordinary &#8220;Year in Review&#8221; sort of way (a totally unoriginal idea, we realize). Perhaps we still will if we can get to it soon, before the idea has gone completely stale.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here is one fun fact that came out of our preliminary looking back over the year: this blog is almost exactly six months old (honestly, it feels older). And in that time, we generated 251 posts (<a title=\"The Feds on Enbridge\u2019s handling of Michigan spill\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/07\/11\/the-feds-on-enbridges-handling-of-michigan-spill\/\">we kicked things off with Marshall<\/a>, of course!). That averages out to 41 posts a month&#8211; more than one a day! Why mention this? Well, partly to say (apologetically) that there is no way we can continue on that furious pace. Honestly, it&#8217;s not good for our sanity and, truth be told, not all that good for our &#8220;regular&#8221; career, either. So while we have no intention of giving the blog up&#8211; far too much still demands our attention and the fact is that we&#8217;ve grown rather devoted to you, our readers and new friends&#8211; we will be posting less frequency in the near term, a few times a week, not a few times a day. We hope you won&#8217;t mind if the pace slows!<\/p>\n<p>But speaking of things that still require our attention and vigilance: phase two continues to make its way through the MPSC approval process and it probably won&#8217;t be wrong before that approval is granted. But there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/efile.mpsc.state.mi.us\/efile\/viewcase.php?casenum=17020\" target=\"_blank\">some interesting filings lately <\/a>(last month). We&#8217;ve been looking them over and plan to make this the basis of a new series. Stay tuned for that.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also last month&#8217;s &#8220;Construction Update&#8221; newsletter. We&#8217;ve got some things to say about that as well. Plus, it will afford another opportunity to crack a few jokes about Enbridge mascot <a title=\"Enbridge\u2019s Freep ads, one last time\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/12\/11\/enbridges-freep-ads-one-last-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dr. Michael Milan.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, judging from all the new flags decorating our road, it looks like construction activity is about to heat up around here. We&#8217;ll watch and take photos.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s a bit of unfinished business from last year we haven&#8217;t given up on: the long promised post on the environmental panel at the <a title=\"PS Trust Report, Part 3\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/11\/19\/ps-trust-report-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">PS Trust conference<\/a>, what we learned about <a title=\"Exceeding regulations: context\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/12\/01\/exceeding-regulations-context\/\" target=\"_blank\">Line 6B &#8220;exceeding&#8221; federal regulations<\/a>, and a few other things we&#8217;ve been mulling over for a long time, like our theory about how Enbridge seems to still be living in the 20th century. We&#8217;re continuing to keep our eye on <a title=\"Matters in Indiana\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/12\/27\/matters-in-indiana\/\" target=\"_blank\">things down in Indiana<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you&#8217;ll stick around for all of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, the end of a year and the beginning of another is a time for some reflection. In fact, over the break we were thinking of compiling some &#8220;Top Ten&#8221; lists in the ordinary &#8220;Year in Review&#8221; sort of way (a totally unoriginal idea, we realize). 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