Romilly Cavanaugh stood at the edge of the Coquihalla River north of Hope, watching big trees snap off the bank like blades of grass in a lawn mower. Some of those not swept away held dead fish in their branches three metres off the ground — a reminder of what came before.ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS & MORE FROM TYEE AND SELECT PARTNERSFinding Hope To Fight The Climate Crisis: A Forum Join SFU Public Square and Vancity for a discussion with climate justice advocates on pushing forward with resolve after COP26.Presenting ‘Under The White Gaze’: A Tyee Newsletter Tired of ‘model minorities,’ ‘immigrant invasions’ and other tropes? Follow reporter Chris Cheung’s journey into making the news better.Cavanaugh and her fellow engineers had been sent into the chaos for a sole purpose: to watch the Trans Mountain pipeline through the flood of 1995.Over that week they held vigil in torrential rain because the pipe, usually buried in a thick blanket of soil and rock, was bare and moving up and down in the river “like a piece of cooked spaghetti.”That was new to her. “You don’t expect metal structures to be moving.”
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