As the Keystone XL saga made clear, Alberta has had trouble getting its oil and gas to markets outside of the province. That trouble continues for Canada’s oil industry. The 1.1 million barrel-per-day Energy East Pipeline, for example, would take Alberta crude to Canada’s Atlantic coast, but it has been slowed and delayed by regulatory reviews. The CEO of TransCanada, Russ Girling, said that the failure to build new pipelines is costing the industry dearly. “The delay is already costing our economy billions of dollars. Those are the kinds of numbers that have already come out of the economy because we haven’t gotten these things done over the last few years,” Girling lamented . He said that he hopes that Canadian regulators complete the environmental review by 2018. Several oil pipelines to the Pacific face similar hurdles. Canada’s natural gas sector faces a different problem: its market in the […]