TransCanada Corp’s decision this week to scrap its $12 billion Energy East pipeline and delays to other export pipeline projects look set to increase producers’ reliance on costly crude-by-rail to bring barrels to market. Calgary-based TransCanada said on Thursday it will abandon Energy East, which would have taken crude from Alberta to the Atlantic Coast. The move came after Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) on Aug. 23 announced a tougher review process that would consider indirect greenhouse gas emissions. Shipping crude by rail is more expensive than by pipeline for producers already struggling with weak global oil prices. It is also considered more dangerous than pipelines because of derailments like the 2013 Lac-Megantic, Quebec, disaster, in which 47 people died in a fiery oil train crash. Oil industry participants say regulatory requirements for major energy projects in Canada are now so stringent it is unlikely […]