When the visionary architect Erin Moore contacted me regarding her FLOAT design project protesting the Pacific Connector Pipeline, it took me no time at all to say yes! I was excited to photograph the project, and delighted to lend my craft to the protest of this backward looking fossil fuel endeavor.

The Pipeline Connector Project will bring fracked gas from Canada across the United States to Jordan Cove near Coos Bay in southern Oregon. Canada is able to ʻTakeʻ U.S. land through a reciprocity arrangement with our government.

American land is ʻTakenʻ. China gets the product. Canada gets the profit.

Since pipelines always break, American land will suffer the toxic spills, the cleanup, and the degraded soil, water, and habitat.

After Canadaʻs indigenous people rejected the project, the oil and gas company turned to the states of Washington and California. Both states rejected the project for many reasons. Oregon was their last option for a port from which to load and ship the gas to China.

Oregon was last option because of high levels of seismic activity along our coast. If you live in Oregon and agree that this is bad and backward policy, please contact your local and state elected officials to voice your dissent. Time is running out to stop this disaster.

For the creative side of this story, I invite you to visit one or all of these links:

Erin Mooreʻs site FLOAT

A review of this project in Metropolis Magazine

Erin Moore is one of five finalists for the international prize from Architizer. There is a public voting option for the five finalists HERE