Typical short-sighted ignorance of the average NDP supporter. This project will provide clean power for BC/Alberta for the next 100 years - it is an investment. The NIMBY activists have too much power in Canada when even a government cannot finish a project without being sabotaged by a vocal minority or career activists who protest for a living while shamelessly taking advantage of Canada's first world services that are a product of Canada's resource sectors. Alberta's current government is shutting down their coal plants based on being able to cover their power demand from BC's Site C. 
BC is closed for resource development, no new mining, no new oil and gas, no new hydro, NIMBY #becausit's2017. 
Canada's biggest impediment to value creation is the ignorance of short-sighted weasels who protest development for a living.