Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage says it is high time that the Liberal government treats Alberta’s oil and gas reserves as a strategic asset, and not a liability to be phased out to the detriment of energy security. Speaking at a press conference on March 11, Savage said the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put a spotlight on the weakness of North America’s energy policy, affirming the need to continue producing oil and gas to counter any supply disruption. “Over the past several decades, the growing focus on energy policy in Western democracies has been almost exclusively on climate change and the need to reduce emissions, to the detriment and to the leaving out of discussion on energy security, reliability, and affordability,” she said. “The failure to prioritize energy security has now put the U.S. administration into the somewhat embarrassing predicament of having to beg their own producers, domestic producers …