Canada’s tar sands have gained infamy for being one of the world’s most polluting sources of oil, thanks to the large amounts of energy and water use required for their extraction.

Canada’s tar sands have gained infamy for being one of the world’s most polluting sources of oil, thanks to the large amounts of energy and water use required for their extraction.

A proposed expansion of a tar sands oil pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia has erupted into the largest controversy Canada has seen in years. The project’s proponents want to increase ...

But as Canada is to tar sands, Brazil and Estonia are to Kerogen/Oil Shale. For decades, both as a part of the USSR and now, Estonia has had both oil and electricity provided by extracting energy ...

Canada and Its Tar Sands: What the Country Can Learn From Brazil About Protecting the Environment. In 1986, the then-editor of The New Republic, Michael Kinsley, ...

The extraction of crude oil from Canada's tar sands is a classic case of market forces vs. environmental concerns. Sometimes both sides can be compromised and "progress" and profit can roll ahead.

Energy is ugly. Some forms more so than others, as nuclear near-meltdowns in Japan, the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and deaths in a West Virginia coal mine explosion have driven home in the ...

Reporting from Fort St. James, Canada — The prime minister is talking about being “held hostage” by U.S. interests. Radio ads blare, “Stand up to this foreign bully.” A Twitter account ...

Fossil Fuels 2016: Canada’s Oil Sands Downturn Hints at Ominous Future Low oil prices that caused project cancellations, as well as new climate policies, have activists seeing the beginning of ...

For Canada, the story of the tar sands' future hinges on the great economic pressure the country is feeling to bring its vast reserves of crude oil to market.. With more than 10 percent of the ...

Canada free to ship crude from tar sands to Europe. The decision to weaken the FQD and today’s vote has removed an obstacle to Canada shipping crude from tar sands to Europe.

Canada's recent push for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta to the nation's West Coast has been marked by uncharacteristic defiance.