This could be the mot ridiculous opinion article ever.  Criticizing hydro electric power as not being clean?  It's the cleanest reliable power source in the world.  I love solar technology, but if you think you can power Vancouver on solar energy in the winter, you have never lived through 2 months without sunshine, or as Vancouver calls it,  January and February.

Also, the Vancouver Island power generation facility doesn't need to reliably deliver energy to the Lower Mainland.  It exists to produce power for Vancouver Island if it gets cut off from the power it receives from the mainland.  To not see that means the authors are either ignorant, incompetent or spinning the facts,