In the latest podcast episode of The Takeover, we look at an international non-profit group that is working from the ground ...

Despite lower oil prices, Canada’s oil sands production is expected to reach a new annual all-time high in 2025, thanks to ...

Pathways Alliance, which represents six Canadian fossil fuel producers, is listed as a platinum sponsor of the Calgary Youth ...

After its invention by Karl Clark in the 1920s, the conventional oil sands processing method had generally remained unimproved till today, often resulting oil sands companies having to deal with ...

By 2003, tar sands oil was recognized as part of the world’s proven oil reserves and the boom was on.

Air pollution levels over Alberta’s tar sands are many times higher than industry-reported figures, according to researchers, raising questions over potential health risks to downwind Indigenous ...

The news: The biggest Canadian banks more than doubled funding into highly polluting tar sands oil projects to $16.8 billion last year, according to a report by a coalition of environmental groups.

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Canada’s top banks more than doubled their financing of highly polluting tar sands oil to $16.8bn in 2021 ...

Now the region has become a hotbed of controversy as indigenous people clash with a Canadian company determined to transport tar sands oil across the state.

Oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil and the Canadian giant Suncor have transformed Alberta’s tar sands—also called oil sands—into one of the world’s largest industrial developments.

Most international oil firms have fled. The latest firm to retreat is Teck Resources. On February 23rd the Canadian company scrapped plans for a C$20bn ($15bn) oil-sands mine.

Our northern neighbors have invented a quintessentially-Canadian way of transporting oil from tar sands: They’re forging it into solid, hockey-puck-like briquettes.