CANADIAN PRESS: A career diplomat is keeping a close eye on the failures and successes within Alberta’s oilsands and is reporting what she learns to the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama. The giant projects in northern Alberta have taken global centre stage of late, thanks in large part to climate-change talks in Copenhagen. And Laura Lochman, the U.S. consul general responsible for Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, has essentially become the eyes and ears for …