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Cheap, clean, safe and secure. Whether it’s petroleum products, natural gas or electricity, that’s how we like our energy.

But we’re never really satisfied, are we? Our wallets feel picked by the monthly utility bill. Only a perpetual motion machine will ever be clean enough. And we question safety over extremely low-probability events.

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I’m being facetious, of course, but what about energy security? That’s the instinctual knowledge in modern society that the lights go on when you flick the switch. Security is the comfort that the furnace will fire up for an Edmonton winter and the gas pump will have ample fuel when you pull up to fill up.

Recent events raise the probability of disruption in Central Canada

When our energy systems fail to deliver that is when we panic.

Ironically, when it comes to oil supply, Canada could be one of the least energy secure countries in the world.

Say what? Canada, the fourth largest producer of oil in the world, a country that exports just over two times more petroleum than it consumes, is vulnerable to shortages?