ABSTRACT
Considering the Finnish electricity infrastructure and its security of supply, concerns over the duration of raw resources and stockpiling may have been justified in the context of the war and the post-war shortage of electricity. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, a number of events had challenged Finnish national security. The oil crisis was widely debated in the Nordic countries at the time and historian Timo Myllyntaus argues that the oil crisis even "led to a reformulation of the objectives of Finnish energy policy". The Economic Defence Planning Authority and its Power Economy Pool were engaged in what is reported to have been strong internal disputes. The central disagreement was about whether these organizations had comprehended up- to-date hazards and threats. In a way, all infrastructure protections have tried to find a balance between risk – probabilities and impacts of events that can be calculated – and uncertainty – aspects of events that cannot be calculated.
