“Just get on with it.”

That’s according to the Mayor of Kamloops, who is growing frustrated as the Trans Mountain pipeline court battle drags with the province now taking it to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Ken Christian says for all the province’s talk about protecting the environment and concern about increased oil tanker traffic in the Salish Sea, there seems to be a disregard on increased oil shipped by rail.

Christian says oil cars travelling by rail through sensitive ecosystems, alongside major rivers, and through communities presents a much more serious risk of a spill.

“Those are high risk riparian areas and in the event of a derailment there would be a massive environmental consequence,” he said. “That in my opinion is a more real possibility than the issue related to tankers in the Salish Sea given all of the precautions that have been placed on them.”

Christian says the pipeline also means big taxation revenue for city coffers, $750,000 for utility tax rates during construction alone.