{"id":3633,"date":"2015-02-02T14:51:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2016-03-23T13:11:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:11:05","slug":"et-rover-and-enbridge-together-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2015\/02\/02\/et-rover-and-enbridge-together-again\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Rover and Enbridge: Together Again- Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update 4:15 pm<\/span>: Eric Dresden at MLive has confirmed with a Rover spokesperson that the pipeline is still planned to run through Lenawee and Washtenaw counties. See the comments section of the MLive article linked below.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update<\/span>: In an earlier version of this post, we said that Rover would not need to build any new pipeline in Michigan.\u00a0But that&#8217;s not entirely clear. The announcement states that they are eliminating the segments through Shiawasee, Genessee, Lapeer, Oakland, St. Clair, and Macomb counties. What that means for Lenawee, Washtenaw, and Livingston counties remains uncertain. We apologize for the confusion.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/flint\/index.ssf\/2015\/02\/et_rover_announces_deal_to_eli.html\" target=\"_blank\">MLive has more on the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to one of our friends, we&#8217;ve gotten to the bottom of today&#8217;s\u00a0ET Rover news. We&#8217;re still thinking through and digesting the full implications of the matter, but preliminarily we can say that it is very, very good news: it means that Rover will not need to build 110 miles of their proposed\u00a0new pipeline infrastructure here.\u00a0For many landowners, that is cause for celebration!<\/p>\n<p>According to their press release, Rover has struck a deal with Vector Pipeline to use its existing infrastructure to transport oil through Michigan (many readers of this blog have the Vector line on their properties). So <a title=\"ET Rover\u2019s Unnecessary Land Grab (featuring a cameo appearance by Enbridge)\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2014\/07\/09\/et-rovers-unnecessary-land-grab-featuring-a-cameo-appearance-by-enbridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rover and Enbridge<\/a> have reunited:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vector-pipeline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vector, you may recall, is owned (in part) by Enbridge.\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RoverAgmt.tiff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3634\" src=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RoverAgmt.tiff\" alt=\"RoverAgmt\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We believe Rover never would have sought this agreement were it not for the loud voices of Michigan citizens and the excellent leadership and action of so many local government officials. Thanks and congratulations to all!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the press release:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RoverAgmt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3635 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RoverAgmt.jpg\" alt=\"RoverAgmt\" width=\"637\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RoverAgmt.jpg 637w, http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RoverAgmt-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 4:15 pm: Eric Dresden at MLive has confirmed with a Rover spokesperson that the pipeline is still planned to run through Lenawee and Washtenaw counties. See the comments section of the MLive article linked below. Update: In an earlier version of this post, we said that Rover would not need to build any new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-et-rover","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","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=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}