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supply of their primary heating fuel had grossly miscalculated. 

This error is likely to be repeated if Energy East is approved. That's because the accompanying Eastern Mainline would see southern Ontario and QC become increasingly dependent on gas from the USA. Just as we allowing the rapid depletion of our conventional gas, a similar process is underway with respect to American gas: there are grand plans to export it by pipeline to Mexico and Canada and overseas via multiple LNG export terminals.

We should not underestimate the ability of commercial enterprises to liquidate nonrenewable resources in the absence of long-term planning or consideration of energy security.

Similarly, the NEB has approved multiple export proposals for much of our remaining gas, most of which is in northeastern BC. A few decades from now our children may wish that we'd become less dependent on US gas and had saved some of that BC gas for their needs.