Keystone contractor did not pose conflict of interest, IG says - Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin - The firm the State Department hired to conduct an environmental assessment of a controversial oil pipeline project did not pose a conflict of interest, the agency’s inspector general concluded in a report released Thursday.   Provinces must seek new markets for natural gas - The Globe and Mail, David Campbell - Without new markets, ambitious provincial plans from British Columbia to New Brunswick to benefit from shale gas will be have to be put [...]