There are many problems with the pipeline and the three gas-fired generation plants. Here are some. The pipeline is proposed to run through good working agricultural land. With a pipeline in place, that farmland loses a lot of its value and use. The pipeline is proposed to run through sensitive marine environements, including some areas that are already, or are proposed to be, protected areas.
Pipelines are extremely unsafe.
Much like years ago nobody thought cigarettes were so unhealthy, we are today only beginning to realize that pipelines pack a real threat of explosion and pollution. Every couple of days a natural gas pipeline breaks in North America. Every four days, someone is injured. Every seventeen days, someone is killed in a pipeline incident. Georgia Strait and Vancouver Island have earthquakes all the time.