{"id":3298,"date":"2014-05-30T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T13:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2014-05-30T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:08:21","slug":"no-one-at-enbridge-knows-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2014\/05\/30\/no-one-at-enbridge-knows-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"No One at Enbridge Knows Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month Enbridge announced<\/a> that they were ready to\u00a0begin restoration work<\/a> on the segment of line 6B\u00a0between Griffith, Indiana, and Stockbridge, Michigan. That’s (semi) good news for all those landowners on Phase Two. But there’s just one problem: Enbridge\u00a0hasn’t completed restoration work on Phase One. We’ve been hearing from some of our fellow landowners who are wondering what’s going on. We’ve been wondering the same thing ourselves, since this is currently what our property looks like. Trust us, that black silt fence is not of our own\u00a0design and making.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of course, nobody from Enbridge has taken any steps whatsoever to inform us or our fellow landowners of when, if ever, anyone from Enbridge will return to complete the job. Tired of waiting– and, frankly, increasingly concerned about all the troubles that barren swath of land is causing, from weeds to water runoff– we called our land agent yesterday to see if we could get some answers. Here’s how that phone call went (note: not an exact transcript, but very close):<\/p>\n

Us: What can you tell us about when crews will be back to restore our property.<\/p>\n

Agent: Well, I heard they were going to start restoration in June, but I don’t know where they’ll start or when they’ll get to you.<\/p>\n

Us: What do you mean, “you heard”? Don’t you know?<\/p>\n

Agent: Well, it’s what I heard.<\/p>\n

Us: Heard from whom?<\/p>\n

Agent: Well, that’s what Enbridge says.<\/p>\n

Us: Who at Enbridge said that?<\/p>\n

Agent: Well, I don’t know. The higher ups. I heard it from talking to construction crews.<\/p>\n

Us: Construction crews? Wait. You’re telling me that Enbridge doesn’t communicate with you, the people who are supposed to communicate with landowners?<\/p>\n

Agent: Well,\u00a0I just heard they were going to start restoration in June, but I don’t know where they’ll start or when they’ll get to you.<\/p>\n

So, after a 10 minute conversation, we knew no more than we did before we called. And that’s because Enbridge’s land agents<\/a>, the people whose job it is to keep landowners informed, don’t seem to know anything and therefore cannot keep landowners informed<\/em>. And that appears to be because Enbridge, bafflingly, doesn’t tell them<\/em> anything. It is the most perverse system imaginable. We can only assume that\u00a0Enbridge supervisors in charge of land agents are either utterly incompetent or simply\u00a0hostile to landowners, the people with whom their office is supposed to cultivate productive relations. Beyond those possibilities, we have no idea what is to account for these persistent problems and, honestly,\u00a0we’re tired of\u00a0speculating<\/a>. What we do know, however, is that\u00a0those of us on Phase One have been dealing with this kind of poor communication and indifference from Enbridge for more than two full years<\/em> now. And there appears to be\u00a0no real end in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month Enbridge announced that they were ready to\u00a0begin restoration work on the segment of line 6B\u00a0between Griffith, Indiana, and Stockbridge, Michigan. That’s (semi) good news for all those landowners on Phase Two. But there’s just one problem: Enbridge\u00a0hasn’t completed restoration work on Phase One. We’ve been hearing from some of our fellow landowners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction","category-conduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","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=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}