FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta -- Along the Athabasca River of remote northern Alberta is an engineer's dream -- miles of gigantic projects turning once unrecoverable oil from Alberta's tar sands into black ...

When he finally reached Fort McMurray, he signed up for a bus tour of the SunCor mining operation. He and a busload of perhaps 20 or more people were brought to various sites where they could get out ...

FOR MCMURRAY, Alberta -- A fire that forced the evacuation of the Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, could get worse Wednesday, but no injuries have been reported, officials said. More ...

A central position of green syndicalism is that the destruction of nature and the destruction of workers’ lives and communities are inextricably linked and proceed together. Both are probability ...

In a sign the massive Alberta wildfire is taking a toll on oil transport, Canadian crude exports to the United States dropped 12 percent last week, while another blend of Canadian sweet crude oil ...

Along Highway 63 here the rolling hills give way to massive open pits, huge waste ponds and tangles of pipes and refining equipment that spew smoke into the air. In the pits, shovel trucks load dirt ...

In the spring of 2008, an estimated 1,600 migratory ducks landed in the wrong place: a pond of toxic sludge in Fort McMurray, Alberta, in the heart of Canada’s oil sands. The birds, slick with oil, ...

SHAGHAYEGH TAJVIDI, TRNN PRODUCER: Last week, 13 cities across Canada participated in a day of solidarity with the tar sands blockade in Hamilton, Ontario. Their activists had taken over North ...

Mayor Melissa Blake told members of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board that Fort McMurray is already financially unsustainable. The population has more than doubled to nearly 75,000 in nine years, ...

Welcome to boomtown. Fort McMurray is a town of 65,000 in northern Canada. Temperatures drop to 40 below in the winter. And now housing prices have skyrocketed, food prices are double what they are ...

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