Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Rail transport into region of Canadian tar sands crude called risky by activists

While politicians, environmentalists and Big Oil fight over the Keystone XL pipeline, the Bay Area's five refineries have quietly moved toward transporting controversial Canadian tar sands crude oil ...

A dividend-paying ‘vending machine’ — this oil stock weathers tariffs and OPEC

Charlie Garcia responds to readers about an underfollowed stock with a long history of rewarding shareholders.
Climate Central

For Canada, Tar Sands Are Bigger Than Keystone XL

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 ...
The Atlantic

The Oil Pipeline from the Canadian Tar Sands to the Gulf Coast Is Complete

Congratulations to the people of TransCanada, Inc., whose long fight to connect the tar-sands-oil-pumping Keystone pipeline to the Gulf Coast of America finally reached fruition on Wednesday. Even ...

Canadian M&A battle is about oil’s murky future

It’s cheaper to find crude on the Toronto bourse than in the ground. The discrepancy has driven a frantic war to acquire MEG ...
Collegiate Times

Will We Ruin The Canadian Tar Sands?

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 ...
EURACTIV

German research institute pulls out of Canadian tar sands project

German research institute pulls out of Canadian tar sands project EXCLUSIVE / Germany’s largest and most prestigious research institute has pulled out of a Canadian government-funded CAN$25 million ...
Seeking Alpha

Tar Sands Carbon Footprint Could Knock it Out of the Game

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. There are very few people I drop everything to listen to, and one of them is Daniel Yergin of Cambridge Energy ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Alarm raised about potential tar sands pipeline

MONTPELIER -- With the fight continuing over a proposed tar sands pipeline through the Midwest, environmental groups are raising an alarm that a Canadian energy firm may be turning its attention to a ...
International Business Times

Clinton asked to keep Canada sands oil out of U.S.

An environmental group on Wednesday asked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to deny permits for pipelines that would bring oil from Canada's tar sands to the United States. ForestEthics said ...
Southeast Missourian

Canada's tar sands gain importance as source oil

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 ...
Reuters

Greens hijack Canadian oil sands European speech

LONDON (Reuters) - Environmentalists on Thursday hurled accusations and interrupted a speech by Canada's resources minister, who was on tour to persuade Britain not to join the European Union in ...