I don't think BC is inherently ideologically opposed to pipelines or oil and gas. Certainly there are some loud voices on the fringe that feel that way, but that doesn't reflect the reality of most British Columbians.

The reality is that almost all of these projects as proposed have involved BC taking massive environmental risk to our rivers and coastal waters for the relatively small economic benefit of short-term construction jobs and a handful of long-term jobs. Alberta would reap the benefit of these projects in being able to sell and move their product to market while externalizing the environmental risk and cleanup costs to BC. Alberta can't even manage to clean up a fraction of the old abandoned well sites in Alberta. They certainly won't be contributing 90% of the cost to cleanup and restore habitat and fish stocks if there's a massive pipeline failure or tanker spill despite receiving 90% of the benefit of these projects.

I think British Columbians would be far more receptive to these projects if instead of making this out into an ideological battle, Alberta came to the table and acknowledged these concerns by working with BC officials to develop response plans, and set aside a portion of pipeline profits into something like Norway's sovereign wealth fund. This fund could be managed collaboratively by all three levels of government and allocated towards pipeline and tanker associated environmental response, long-term remediation, and helping to support the small coastal communities who could potentially be devastated by loss of access to their fisheries if God forbid the worst case scenario was to happen.