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.

Apparently, the oil companies strip mining Alberta ... fuzzies about the petroleum extracted from the CO2-intensive tar sands that have created a 7,500-mile ring of elevated mercury levels ...

The rush to exploit Canada’s heavy tar-sand oil, which necessitates more energy to recover than conventional oils, could significantly increase global risks of dangerous climate change, warns a ...

Hari Sreenivasan discusses the president's decision… A Canadian company wants to build a $13 billion, 1,700-mile pipeline to carry crude oil from the so-called tar sands region in Alberta ...

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 ...

But calling them "tar" pits or "tar" sands is misleading ... The oil sands in Utah contain bitumen, similar to the Canadian ...

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.

Darek Urbaniak at Friends of the Earth Europe said: "Some European governments have given in to Canadian and oil lobby pressure, instead of saying no to climate-hostile tar sands. High-polluting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...