The Glen Clark NDP administration also tried to use Natural Gas to pump up the BC Economy.

Clark touted sales to the Gas Turbine Power plant the USA wanted to build in Sumas, just south of the border.

Clark also wanted to retire the submarine DC cable that carry BC Hydroelectric power to Vancouver Island, replacing it with new Gas pipeline and Gas Turbine power plants that would cost Vancouver Island residents more, while freeing up cheaply produced Hydroelectric power for export at peak demand times. 

The BC Liberals led the political fight against the Sumas Gas Power plant proposal. Ironic, eh!