The provincial government of Alberta and the federal government of Canada are the culprits behind the continuing problems of the country’s oil industry, which have now swelled to the size of a full-blown crisis, according to the latest Oil & Gas Survey Outlook Report by the Daily Oil Bulletin. As many as two-thirds of the 150 respondents in the survey said they were pessimistic about the immediate prospects of the oil and gas industry, the Daily Oil Bulletin reports, with over a third being very pessimistic. To make the picture even grimmer, only 3 percent said they were very optimistic, with 27 percent expressing some degree of optimism. These outtakes are hardly surprising. Canada’s oil industry survived the 2014 oil price crisis only to face a pipeline capacity shortage that has forced non-integrated producers to switch to oil trains to move their product to refiners south of the border. […]