You and I have crossed paths many times over the years, Formerly. 

I favour a long-term, prudent approach to our finite fossil fuels and our climate. You can't understand why the liquidation of our remaining reserves isn't accelerating.

You and I are of the same vintage, I believe. For that reason and the fact that you're from Calgary, I'm surprised that you don't recall the two reports that the NEB issued a decade ago, pointing out that our natural gas supply (conventional gas only, at that time) had been depleted much more quickly than anyone had expected.
Sadly, they reported, our kids would have to depend increasingly on imported LNG. 

Fracking changed all that, of course, and your mind-set prevails once again: "The last thing we need to worry about is supply... let's sell the stuff." 

I remember a gas salesman telling my parents they should switch from oil to gas, "We have centuries of gas out west." 
Forty years later the NEB told the nation that much of that gas was gone.