OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will boost monitoring of pollution from its oil-rich tar sands and hopes this will speed up Washington's approval of a proposed $7 billion pipeline to transport heavy ...

If it is ever built, the Keystone XL Pipeline will exist for one reason: To move Canadian tar sands oil from remote Alberta to refineries in Texas. For the U.S., controversy over the tar sands is ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Canada has threatened to scrap a trade deal with the European Union if the EU persists with plans that would block imports of Canada's highly polluting tar sands, according to EU ...

Studies reveal that pollution levels from Canada's Athabasca oil sands are much higher than industry-reported, raising health and environmental concerns. Despite ambitious climate pledges, Canada ...

SHAGHAYEGH TAJVIDI, TRNN PRODUCER: Last week, 13 cities across Canada participated in a day of solidarity with the tar sands blockade in Hamilton, Ontario. Their activists had taken over North ...

In Northern Alberta, Canada, sit the Athabasca tar sands—the world’s largest known reservoir of crude bitumen, and a major driver of Canada’s economy. The vast majority of Canadian oil production ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta -- Along the Athabasca River of remote northern Alberta is an engineer's dream -- miles of gigantic projects turning once unrecoverable oil from Alberta's tar sands into black ...

Canadian researchers have used the mud at the bottom of lakes like a time machine to show that tar sands oil production in Alberta, Canada, is polluting remote regional lakes as far as 50 miles from ...

A resource that is undergoing intensive development in Canada is drawing renewed interest in eastern Utah, where any of a number of companies soon could become the first in the United States to ...

President Obama should not support Canada's request to exempt tar sands development from environmental regulation. Tar sands development is causing tremendous environmental damage to Canada's boreal ...