MAYOR DEREK CORRIGAN
AND HIS REPLY TO KINDER MORGAN
Mayor Derek Corrigan
are you really, truly, worried? About
the survey work being done by Kinder Morgan in Metro Vancouver Parks? I dunno,
Mayor Corrigan doesn’t sound too worried to me.
He seems to be rather more anxious to sooth down any potential public
protest over the matter at least according to his radio interview with CBC
(4/24/2015). It seems the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion into ten
different public properties including Surrey Bend Park and Colony Farm Park in
Port Coquitlam is on Kinder Morgan’s expansion list. And Burnaby Mayor Corrigan’s response?
Mayor Corrigan said
that the new surveys wouldn’t be like what happened at Burnaby. He said that on these new surveys Kinder Morgan
would be limited to a “minimally intrusive inspection.” And then he added: “Metro has said that they
can’t so much as harm a piece of shrubbery, that they can‘t so much as tie a
ribbon on one of the shrubs.”
If that’s actually the
case then why is Metro allowing Kinder Morgan to map these parks at all? What’s the point? I think the process is very like a pimp
seducing an innocent young girl. Kinder
Morgan, like any successful pimp, will promise the young girl that he wishes
only good, kind things for her, and will not harm a precious hair on her
head. And then several months down the
road when the girl is on the street for her pimp, no longer innocent but too
drug addicted to figure it all out, society in general wonders how such things
can happen so insidiously. And even
Mayor Corrigan admits this possibility of seduction by Kinder Morgan. He ends his interview with the rather rueful
comment:
“I suspect though that
they’re (Kinder Morgan) going to want to move to the next stage very quickly
and want to do more.”
What more? Of course, expand their Trans Mountain
pipeline into the parks systems. What
else could it possibly be? And we,
taxpayers, are like all innocent young girls everywhere, we search for the good
in treacherous men (and women, too) who pimp for corporations ( or look the
other way when it is happening) that are busy creating conditions that will in
the end wipe out both pimps and innocent young girls along with the rest of us. Unless we finally, finally stop this from
happening. Can we? We can if we put our minds to it. photo by creamcheese
