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.

But the world will face shortages more lasting than any 1970s oil shock—and some stark choices. Should we increase production from the Canadian tar sands and similar "heavy oil" deposits in ...

The Canadian boreal forest covers two million square miles, of which around 75 percent remains undeveloped. The oil sands mines have ... you could move that much tar and have no effect," says ...

For years, Canada’s booming oil fields have had few choices but to funnel the country’s thick, tar-like crude ... that will carry Canadian crude from Alberta’s oil sands to the Pacific.

At the same time, TransCanada and other companies like Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are trying to build more pipelines to transport tar sands, and they've started using the dangerous practice of ...

But calling them "tar" pits or "tar" sands is misleading ... The oil sands in Utah contain bitumen, similar to the Canadian oil sands, and they have been the subject of some commercial oil ...

If Line 5 continues to operate, there will be an oil spill. It’s not a matter of if, but when. The result: Thousands of miles of our beaches contaminated by sticky, black, Canadian tar-sands oil, ...

Oil industry, environmentalists ... It is an odd coalition opposing E15, and the Canadian tar sands comment doesn't exactly clarify things. The fight will continue in Congress and the White ...

He's being lambasted for his administration's failure to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would move Canadian tar sands oil to Texas refineries. As a source of gasoline ...

Eventually, 588,000 gallons of toxic tar sands oil—almost an Olympic swimming pool’s worth ... According to a government-mandated investigation into the cause of the spill, TC Energy, the Canadian ...

But to a group of Indigenous environmental activists familiar with Walz’s record in Minnesota—particularly their view he ...

The book also details how in pursuit of energy security, the Bush administration turned its back on campaign promises to address climate change, and instead made growth in Canadian tar sands oil ...