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 ...

Given that the Alberta tar sands already account for more carbon emissions than 145 entire nations, one would think Canada would have a hard time meeting international environmental standards.

Is Canada's tar sands expansion in trouble? Probably not, but the issue is complicated, so bear with me. Back on November 9, 2012 I wrote a post called A Slowdown At The Tar Sands, noting that the ...

The Canadian tar sands are an extensive deposit of oil-rich bitumen (another word for tar) located in northern Alberta, Canada, with some extensions into adjacent Saskatchewan.

Oil developers in the Canadian Tar Sands are trying to understand some odd oil eruptions around several drilling platforms where oil is coming up through the ground rather than through the wells ...

Canadian researchers have used the mud at the bottom of lakes like a time machine to show that tar sands oil production in Alberta, Canada, is polluting remote regional lakes as far as 50 miles ...

Despite low oil prices today, the long-term economic outlook for the tar-sands oil and the pipelines and railways that will carry it to refineries is likely solid, Gattinger said.

The fortunes of Canadian tar sands oil changed overnight this week. After almost 50 years in power, the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta was completely replaced by the New Democratic ...

Syncrude and Suncor Energy (SU) tar sands facilities are seen as being resilient to fire, in part due to the large deforested areas of the camps.

Corporate and government fleets account for 35 percent of transportation-related oil consumption, according to the Sierra Club report. Targeting the Tar Sands Why target Canadian crude in particular?

The U.S. State Department has curiously asserted that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline wouldn’t significantly affect the development of tar-sands fields in Alberta, Canada. But that assertion ...

Fires burned through the oil sands region north of Fort McMurray in 2011, he said, and the sites themselves were never in danger. "We feel fairly confident those sites themselves will be OK," he said.