Commentary Energy analysts and business leaders have been warning North Americans and Europeans about declining energy security for years. Western nations have spent the last decade obsessed with developing renewable energy resources while shutting down their own conventional energy resource development under the assumption that a great transition would happen. Canada shut down the Northern Gateway pipeline to the west coast and instituted a tanker ban. The Energy East pipeline was regulated to death while Quebec banned all oil and gas activity in their province. The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project was brought to death’s doorstep through government regulations, bought by the government as private investors fled, and has since languished in a partially constructed limbo. While many liquid natural gas terminals have been pitched in Canada, all but one has given up hope and the remaining one is hopelessly delayed in its construction. The Americans were no better, as …