{"id":488,"date":"2012-09-19T12:43:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2012-10-31T19:08:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T23:08:54","slug":"good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/09\/19\/good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, we were in the midst of revisiting our series on the outrageous recent statements in Inside Climate News<\/em> by Enbridge spokesman Larry Springer<\/a>— and then we were planning to take the dog out for a run (we do have a life beyond Enbridge, you know!)– when we received word that an Oakland County Circuit Court judge has dismissed an Enbridge condemnation suit, finding that the language in Enbridge’s proposed easement agreement was over-broad.<\/p>\n

Of course, we’re not surprised to know that the case involved another example of Enbridge over-reaching. But it is nice to see that once in a while, their attempts can be thwarted. We’re also pleased to be able to congratulate\u00a0attorney Kim Savage (who received some assistance from the crackerjacks at Ackerman, Ackerman and Dynkowski)\u00a0on this one, as we’ve long admired her dedication and intelligence.<\/p>\n

This ruling also has some important potential implications that extend well beyond the specific property owners involved. Once we’ve had a chance to read through the case and the judge’s ruling, we’ll have more commentary and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, we were in the midst of revisiting our series on the outrageous recent statements in Inside Climate News by Enbridge spokesman Larry Springer— and then we were planning to take the dog out for a run (we do have a life beyond Enbridge, you know!)– when we received word that an Oakland County […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}