The Canadian oil sands are one of the world’s largest sources of climate pollution and America’s biggest source of imported oil. And they may be about to go bust.

Some tar sands oil trades at a discount to WTI and thus Brent, which means that you can't get the benchmark price for it. This March 26, 2013 Reuters report tell us what Canadian crudes are ...

A 2012 U.S. Energy Information Administration report said the Canadian tar sands extraction would “exacerbate climate change,” and it highlighted other environmental concerns, such as “land ...

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.One ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Employment in Canada as a result of new oil sands investments is expected to grow from 75,000 jobs in 2010 to 905,000 jobs in 2035 with 126,000 jobs being sourced in provinces other than Alberta ...

Expected to carry 890,000 barrels per day of tar-sands oil to port en route to Chinese refineries, the $5.4 billion Trans Mountain Pipeline is currently being reviewed by Canadian regulators, who ...

Keystone XL pipeline rejection a setback for Canadian tar sands development by Corbin Hiar January 18, 2012 January 7, 2022. Share ... The Obama administration’s decision to reject a pipeline that ...

Canadian federal judge Eleanor Dawson said that regulators failed to consider the pipeline's potential impacts of increased ... "It means there won't be 30 more tar-sands tankers moving through ...