Fueling Injustice examines how communities rhetorically confront the environmental and sensory harms caused by the expansion of natural gas infrastructure across Alberta and British Columbia. 

“Extracted from their geologic basin, natural gas travels through a vast pipeline network across North America—powering loud data centers, driving buzzing factories, and fueling noisy industrial machinery. This project foregrounds the affective experience of natural gas infrastructure and the symbolic, material, and sensorial strategies communities use to organize around its disruption. 

More specifically, the project traces the political and embodied consequences of pipeline infrastructure built in response to evolving climate policy, such as energy tariffs. As Canada develops internal pipeline routes in response to tariffs, Indigenous and rural communities along these paths face heightened exposure to environmental and sensory harm. New compressor stations, intensified industrial noise, larger processing plants, and resonant electrical hums mark the impact of this climate policy—triggering new forms and arrangements of community response.”

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