10-6-12

Calgary Herald by Deborah Yedlin.  Given the issues facing the Enbridge Northern Gateway and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelines, the increasingly heated rhetoric surrounding the possible takeover of Nexen by the China National Offshore Oil Company and Friday's announcement that the federal government will extend its review of Progress Energy's purchase by Malaysia's Petronas, it's clear the economics of Alberta's oilpatch are more dependent on the vagaries of politics than ever ....