Last year Shell Canada announced their intention to increase oil production from the Athabasca Tar Sands in Alberta. At the time they said they intended to add 100,000 barrels a day of production.

Shell Canada is one of the major producers of oil from the Athabasca tar sands and they have just announced a major expansion of oil sands production. They'll be adding 100,000 barrels per day of ...

Several minor explosions at the Athabasca oil sands project early on Monday caused a halt in production just eight days after the C$5.7 billion development began operations. Only one worked ...

For food they hunted moose and bison; they fished the Athabasca for walleye and whitefish ... that read "World's Dirtiest Oil: Stop the Tar Sands." The U.S. imports more oil from Canada than ...

The deal gives the Chinese company 60% control of Athabasca Oil Sands Corporation's MacKay and Dover oil sands deposits in Alberta province. The two are projected to yield five million barrels of ...

The company’s strategic focus on oil and gas development in the Athabasca oil sands region of Alberta, combined with its innovative use of Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) technology ...

each detailing varying and at times counterpoint stances on the development in the Tar Sands. One of the most interesting essays comes from Chief Allan Adams, leader of the Athabasca Chipewyan ...

Tar-sands-related tailings ponds in the Athabasca Oil Sands area are among the largest collections of toxic materials on Earth and lie in unlined dikes feet from the Athabasca River. Indigenous ...

The tar-sand deposits here and elsewhere in Alberta ... together wring more than 600,000 barrels of oil a day from the Athabasca sands. Every step of the way takes brute force.

President Obama denied TransCanada Corp.'s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline Wednesday, a project that would have carried oil 1,700 miles from the tar sands of Canada to refineries in ...

Tar sands oil — even the name sounds bad. And it is bad. In fact, oil from tar sands is one of the most destructive, carbon-intensive and toxic fuels on the planet. Producing it releases three times ...

Tar sands oil — even the name sounds bad. And it is bad. In fact, oil from tar sands is one of the most destructive, carbon-intensive and toxic fuels on the planet. Producing it releases three times ...