The Athabasca Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada are the largest known resource for crude bitumen in the world. Retrieving that oil from the earth is a major undertaking, one that requires massive ...

That is the phrase Obama's advisers have used to describe oil imported from northern Alberta's huge tar sands region, which has a far higher cost in terms of the carbon dioxide emitted in its ...

Canada's Industry Minister, Tony Clement, has given PetroChina the go-ahead for a 1.7 billion US dollars acquisition of two oil sand projects. The deal gives the Chinese company 60% control of ...

To this point, Helbig presents 15 essays in his book, each detailing varying and at times counterpoint stances on the development in the Tar Sands. One of the most interesting essays comes from ...

Hari Sreenivasan discusses the president's decision… A Canadian company wants to build a $13 billion, 1,700-mile pipeline to carry crude oil from the so-called tar sands region in Alberta ...

As it stands right now, the 300,000 barrels of oil pumped from Northern Alberta via the Trans Mountain pipeline requires approximately ... According to most studies, the greenhouse gas emissions from ...

An oilsands operator in northern Alberta has been ordered to shut down due to repeated failures to meet its regulatory obligations. The Alberta Energy Regulator has issued an order requiring ...