In 1996, Peter claimed legal copyright over his land as a work of art, forcing pipeline developers to do expensive rerouting around it ever since. To meet with him, he charges land developers $500 an hour. When I heard about Peter's clever and inspiring pushback against the pipelining giants, I had to know more. So, I reached out to him over the phone to learn what it's like to beat industry conglomerates at their own bureaucratic game with your art, and where it fits in to the larger picture of the Canadian pipelining conflict.

Melina’s is one of those places that’s actually as cool as your excited roommate says it is.

It’s not armsleeves, touques in the summer and their buddy’s band drifting over a sea of macbooks. It’s the type of place you walk into and want to stay for an obnoxious amount of time, which is actually what most of its customers do.