A t-shirt featuring the image of one of my most recent Orca Tiles, asks the question, “Who does the public include?”
This question comes from my close reading of the 2019 National Energy Board’s approval documents for the environmental assessment of the Transmountain Pipeline Expansion, which now carries bitumen from Alberta’s Tar Sands to the Port of Vancouver. In the document, the NEB acknowledges that the project will push the Southern Resident Killer Whales towards extinction, but they still approved the project, saying that it was in the “national public interest”, a term repeated throughout the 680-page document.
To this I say, How? How can driving a species of whale to extinction be in the public interest? And why? Why are these orca not included in our idea of the public? They live here with us, they have families and emotional live just like we do. One of the goals of my life-long Orca Tile project is to expand our idea of who is included in the public, and who’s interests we consider, to the Southern Resident Orca and to all the other creatures of the Salish Sea. Support the project by getting a tee and talking to people about it!
100% Cotton, printed locally by Jess Hart on a unisex Gildan tee.
All sizes available
A t-shirt featuring the image of one of my most recent Orca Tiles, asks the question, “Who does the public include?”
This question comes from my close reading of the 2019 National Energy Board’s approval documents for the environmental assessment of the Transmountain Pipeline Expansion, which now carries bitumen from Alberta’s Tar Sands to the Port of Vancouver. In the document, the NEB acknowledges that the project will push the Southern Resident Killer Whales towards extinction, but they still approved the project, saying that it was in the “national public interest”, a term repeated throughout the 680-page document.
To this I say, How? How can driving a species of whale to extinction be in the public interest? And why? Why are these orca not included in our idea of the public? They live here with us, they have families and emotional live just like we do. One of the goals of my life-long Orca Tile project is to expand our idea of who is included in the public, and who’s interests we consider, to the Southern Resident Orca and to all the other creatures of the Salish Sea. Support the project by getting a tee and talking to people about it!
100% Cotton, printed locally by Jess Hart on a unisex Gildan tee.
All sizes available
