santimous - for what you say to be true it means it cant be the liberals fault.  Because until very recently we had a conservative federal govt and a conservative BC provincial govt.  

Given that they've spent years getting to this point, none of the regulation changes impacted this project, AND the Libs even approved this project, how can it possibly be the current govts fault?

It's a serious question.  It's either the market's fault, or previous govts.  There hasn't been enough time to blame the current admins.