Arts
As part of Spill Response the artist Jay White organized a guided walk on October 18, 2019 with poet Rita Wong, streamkeeper John Preissl, and Jim Leyden along the proposed Kinder Morgan Pipeline, noting the streams and rivers affected by proposed and ongoing construction.Their work is part of the grassroots collective Mountain Protectors that includes elders and volunteers who strive to uphold the natural laws of the land by monitoring the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. They are based out of and around, Kwekwecnewtxw, the traditional Coast Salish Watch House on Burnaby Mountain, and they constitute a vigilant presence on the Mountain motivated by a decolonial ethos that recognizes our shared responsibility to the lands and waters we live on and around. (Photo: Rachel Topham)