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 ...

If it is ever built, the Keystone XL Pipeline will exist for one reason: To move Canadian tar sands oil from remote Alberta to refineries in Texas. For the U.S., controversy over the tar sands is ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will boost monitoring of pollution from its oil-rich tar sands and hopes this will speed up Washington's approval of a proposed $7 billion pipeline to transport heavy ...

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 ...

Thanks to tar sands, Canada ranks third in world oil reserves behind Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. So, what are the tar sands (often called "oil sands"), how did they get there, and how are they ...

The Washington Post is wailing about the environmental ruination of that great ecological wonder, the Canadian tar sands. Canada's Athabasca Basin holds more hydrocarbons (oil) than anyplace else in ...

Oil developers in the Canadian Tar Sands are trying to understand some odd oil eruptions around several drilling platforms where oil is coming up... Canadian Regulators Investigate Mysterious Tar ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dole and Chiquita were greeted this morning with full-page ads in USA Today calling on the companies to reject extreme fossil fuels from ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Canada has threatened to scrap a trade deal with the European Union if the EU persists with plans that would block imports of Canada's highly polluting tar sands, according to EU ...

President Obama should not support Canada's request to exempt tar sands development from environmental regulation. Tar sands development is causing tremendous environmental damage to Canada's boreal ...