The thing is, it is not the fear of changing our energy proprieties, it is that the NDP seem to be against ALL resource extraction / major energy projects.
Whenever you hear that a nation or other region is this % relying on renewable energy, that includes hydro! And guess what, the NDP are against Site C! Also news flash, wind turbines and solar panels need REE which involves major open pit mines. Will they be allowing these mines to open in BC? Probably not! What about building some facotires that manufacture magnets / wind turbines / etc?? No, that is nasty industrial stuff, don't want that here!
This is where i find the BC NDP and BC style environmentalism in general to be amazingly hypocritical and dangerous.
It is not about taking responsibility, it is about passing the bucket of our energy / resource responsibility to someone else. Out of sight, out of mind.
If you truly want to be an environmental leader, we would continue with our LNG and indeed some oil projects, but conduct them with the highest environmental regulations and monitoring possible. That way we can develop safer / cleaner methods and get some return to the economy in the process, while at the same time developing new alternatives.
In the end, the truth is, if we simply ban these activities within our borders, well, then they will simply go to another jurisdiction where we have NO control. Often, these other jurisdictions are developing nations where the environmental damage in the end to the Earth is far worse.
Europe learned the hard way about this over a decade ago regarding REE. Mining was pretty much banned / greatly reduced across much of Europe, leaving China to slowly corner 96% of the REE market (and causing an environmental disaster while doing so). After realizing this, and the fact that everyone loves computers and cell phones (which need REE), mining again has expanded into Europe where it can far better be controlled environmentally.
Then there is my environmental worry about the Green bandwagon in BC, solar. I have long worried about solar farms being built in BC for one major reason. There are only two regions in the southern half of the province the receive enough sunshine for solar farms to make any sense at all, the Okanagan / Thompson / Fraser grasslands, and the Gulf Islands / South Vancouver Island. These two regions also happen to be the two most endangered ecosystems in Canada, with limited area and already extreme land pressure from urban development and agriculture. I never never never want to see any of our two most endangered ecosystems lost to large sprawling solar farms.
Where solar does make sense is on house / business rooftops (which they do here in Japan) that would be a good program. But, before you get all excited about that, even though there are many solar roofs around me here, there is also a massive shipyard only 2 KM away from my house continuously building massive LNG ships and only 5km is a massive LNG energy plant