Globe and Mail: If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of desperation in the voice of Alberta Premier Jim Prentice when he talks about the Energy East pipeline. One doesn't have to concentrate quite as hard to detect the same anxiety in the words of Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.
Both were taken aback when Ontario and Quebec announced seven conditions for granting approval to the pipeline. One of those includes an assessment of the project's upstream greenhouse gas emissions - which would appear to take...