1. ENERGY PRODUCTION IN CANADA

2. Squeeze a pump and gas flows.

3. Flick a switch and a room lights up.

4. Turn a dial and flame ignites on a stove.

5. We’ve com a long way from smashing rocks together to create a spark, or using whale oil to illuminate a house.

6. Energy has become so convenient that most of us put very little though towards where it comes from and how it get to us.

7. While most of us are aware that energy can be coaxed from sands sticky with oil and shot through pipelines, or harnessed by damming massive bodies of water, captured from the sun or wind or even sucked from rotting waste, here are a few facts you may not have known about energy in Canada:

8. EVEN THOUGH CANADA IS RICH IN OIL, ALMOST HALF THE GAS WE USE COMES FROM OVERSEAS.

9. THE NUNAVUT GOVERNMENT BUYS ALL THE GAS FOR THE TERRITORY ONCE A YEAR.

10. OFFSHORE OIL IS BIG BUSINESS THESE DAYS IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

11. INUVIK SITS ON A WEALTH OF NATURAL GAS, BUT THE CITY CAN’T USE IT.

12. ST. JOHN IS HOME TO A CRITICAL PART OF CANADA’S NATURAL GAS NETWORK.

13. KITIMAT IS POISED TO BECOME ONE OF CANADA’S ENERGY HOTSPOTS.

14. COAL IS STILL A MAJOR SOURCE OF THE NATION’S ELECTRICITY.

15. WATER IS A DOMINANT SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY IN CANADA.

16. NUCLEAR POWER IS A SMALL BUT KEY PART OF CANADA’S ENERGY MIX.

17. THERE’S AN EMERGING INDUSTRY TO TURN TRASH INTO ENERGY.

18. SOLAR POWER COULD BE THE KEY TO GRASS ROOTS ENERGY PRODUCTION

19. CANADA’S WIND-ENERGY CAPACITY IS ON THE RISE.

20. HIGH COSTS HAMPER THE COUNTRY’S USE OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY.

21. ENERGY PRODUCTION IN CANADA