{"id":2967,"date":"2013-11-25T17:42:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T22:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2013-11-25T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T22:42:04","slug":"about-those-construction-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2013\/11\/25\/about-those-construction-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"About those construction delays&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re already working on our series of posts following <a title=\"2013 PS Trust Conference Highlights\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2013\/11\/24\/2013-ps-trust-conference-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s PS Trust conference<\/a> (we think we&#8217;ll start by discussing everybody&#8217;s favorite federal regulatory agency!). But there&#8217;s a holiday coming up, so we&#8217;re not sure how soon we&#8217;ll get to the first one. Meanwhile, some more papers have picked up the story of the <a title=\"Enbridge to Stop Work for Winter\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2013\/11\/15\/enbridge-to-stop-work-for-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\">construction delays<\/a> on phase two of the Line 6B replacement, including the suspension over to our east that we mentioned last week. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/article\/20131120\/LOCAL06\/131129936\/1006\/NEWS\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesherald.com\/article\/20131121\/NEWS01\/311210019\/1002\/rss\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this one. If we had the energy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwitimes.com\/business\/local\/article_272c7785-f0a6-5dfc-829d-87bbc5f7637c.html#.Uo1jS1QaT7Q.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph S. Pete&#8217;s article in the Times of Northwest Indiana<\/a> (whatever happened to Lauri Harvey Keagle, who was doing such good work?) could easily be the basis of another of our <a title=\"How Not to Write about Line 6B (again)\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2013\/10\/28\/how-not-to-write-about-line-6b-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How Not to Write About Line 6B&#8221;<\/a> posts. But to be honest, we haven&#8217;t got the energy; sometimes, it just feels too much like howling into the dark and empty wilderness. Suffice it to say that Pete did little more than type up a friendly Enbridge press release. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Setting that aside, we just have one little question: aren&#8217;t <em>any<\/em> local reporters even remotely interested in asking the blatantly obvious question here about these delays? <em>What environmental permits, specifically, has Enbridge not yet obtained and why have they not obtained them?<\/em> Wouldn&#8217;t anybody covering this story think to ask that?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re trying to find out ourselves and will let you know if and when we learn anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re already working on our series of posts following last week&#8217;s PS Trust conference (we think we&#8217;ll start by discussing everybody&#8217;s favorite federal regulatory agency!). But there&#8217;s a holiday coming up, so we&#8217;re not sure how soon we&#8217;ll get to the first one. Meanwhile, some more papers have picked up the story of the construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction","category-indiana","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","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=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}