{"id":4615,"date":"2019-08-20T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2019-08-20T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:40:15","slug":"enbridge-cannot-be-trusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2019\/08\/20\/enbridge-cannot-be-trusted\/","title":{"rendered":"Enbridge Cannot Be Trusted"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been paying attention to Line 5 matters in the past few weeks, you may have noticed that Enbridge has turned up the volume on its campaign to gain public support for its phantom tunnel<\/a>. In addition to their own radio spots, Enbridge has enlisted some of their influential friends in the effort, like the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and even the powerful American Petroleum Institute. More recently, it appears they have convinced some credulous county commissions to join in their public relations effort by adopting a formal resolution in support of Line 5<\/a>. It\u2019s not clear who wrote the thing and at least one commissioner claims it wasn\u2019t Enbridge, but from start to finish it is taken verbatim from well-worn Enbridge talking points.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this is an old pattern. As a landowner who lives along the Enbridge Line 6B pipeline route, I have spent years observing, recording their misdeeds, and sometimes even working closely with Enbridge. During the replacement project, I watched over and over as sweet-talking Enbridge reps seduced local officials into believing their every word. What\u2019s disheartening about this dynamic is that we have mountains of evidence that Enbridge\u2019s words can\u2019t be trusted. Since the Marshall spill in 2010, Enbridge has compiled a long and not-so-distinguished record that illustrates vividly how they deal with Michigan elected officials. Perhaps these county commissioners are unaware of this sordid history. So let’s recall just a handful of examples:<\/p>\n