Sorry about the misquote above Edzell.
Renewable energy projects not only cause far less environmental damage, they generate far more jobs for the same size of investment, making a far more effective economic driver for the BC economy than the BC Liberals LNG pipe dream.
Robert Pollin, the President of Pear Energy and a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has studied this matter [green energy jobs versus fossil fuel jobs and found:]
“The basic facts are simple. When we invest, say, $1 million in building the green economy, this creates about 17 jobs within the United States. By comparison, if we continue to spend as we do on fossil fuels and nuclear energy, you create only about 5 jobs per $1 million in spending. That is, we create about 12 more jobs for every $1 million in spending — 300 percent more jobs — every time we spend on building the green economy as opposed to maintaining our dependence on dirty and dangerous oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power.” ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/20/over-3-times-more-green-jobs-per-mil...