Whether Mayor Derek Corrigan will stand in front of a bulldozer to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline has yet to be seen.
He made the comments during a town hall meeting in March 2014 when he told 200-some residents “we’ve decided as a city to stand up and fight, and fight we will.”
He reiterated the bulldozer promise on Nov. 19 at a pipeline rally in downtown Vancouver. But when the project was approved on Nov. 29 and he was asked about following through, the mayor didn’t exactly respond with a yes or a no.
“I think everybody knows that when you say something like that, it’s symbolic. It means that you will be taking this farther in regard to the opposition, and that’s really where we’re going to find there’s thousands and thousands of people in the Lower Mainland, here in British Columbia, who feel very passionately about this issue,” he said.
With pipeline construction possibly starting September 2017, it seems only time will tell.
But Corrigan has said he doesn’t want the issue to end in protests or public civil disobedience. That’s why the city is exhausting all legal avenues and fighting Kinder Morgan in the courts.
