{"id":779,"date":"2012-10-17T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2012-10-17T09:19:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:19:55","slug":"citizens-taking-it-to-the-pols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/10\/17\/citizens-taking-it-to-the-pols\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens taking it to the pols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three cheers for the irrepressible Beth Duman and Katy Bodenmiller! <a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20121017\/mich-pipeline-fight-frustration-builds-over-elected-leaders-silence\" target=\"_blank\">The latest from David Hasemyer<\/a> at<em> Inside Climate News<\/em> asks where Michigan&#8217;s elected officials have been. A few choice bits:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">\u00a0Bodenmiller on state elected officials:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s their duty to have a keen interest in this pipeline.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the recent <a title=\"Michigan Townships Association supports POLAR lawsuit\" href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/10\/13\/michigan-townships-association-supports-polar-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTA amicus filing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brandon Township Supervisor Kathy Thurman says the collective voice of the association adds authority to the grassroots belief that even a giant corporation like Enbridge must obey the rules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from Damon Hill, a spokesman for the federal agency responsible for pipeline regulations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;PHMSA has pipeline safety regulations that cover design and construction of pipelines,\u201d Hill said. &#8220;PHMSA does not have siting and permitting oversight. That lies with the state and local agencies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20121017\/mich-pipeline-fight-frustration-builds-over-elected-leaders-silence\" target=\"_blank\">share and spread this article<\/a> far and wide. Let&#8217;s see if we can&#8217;t wake up some of our politicians. Surely somebody wants to actually lead!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three cheers for the irrepressible Beth Duman and Katy Bodenmiller! The latest from David Hasemyer at Inside Climate News asks where Michigan&#8217;s elected officials have been. A few choice bits: \u00a0Bodenmiller on state elected officials: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s their duty to have a keen interest in this pipeline.&#8221; On the recent MTA amicus filing: Brandon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}