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B.C. Premier John Horgan cleared a dangerous hurdle Wednesday when his NDP won the Nanaimo byelection.

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The stakes were huge, because a loss to the Liberals would have upended his fragile minority alliance with the Greens.

But Horgan’s troubles, both local and national, that aren’t going away because he managed to preserve the shakiest government west of New Brunswick.

Well, he earned them.

The forces this guy happily unleashed on the Trans Mountain pipeline are now being turned on his own projects.

A First Nations blockade has again halted work on the $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline.

The National Energy Board will also hear an application to conduct a full federal investigation of this project. The province wants to avoid that on grounds that the GasLink is entirely within B.C.

Once these challenges start, you never know. As Vancouver Sun colleague Vaughn Palmer jokes, “litigation futures are the only sure way to make money in B.C.”