Continuing the use of tar sands oil, Coplon-Newfield said, "could really spell game over for the planet in terms of its impact on carbon emissions." ...

Energy producers are spending $15 billion a year to triple oil production from the bitumen-saturated tar sands of northern Alberta, Canada, which are the largest source of oil imports to the U.S.

U.S. Oil Sands, which has acquired the rights to produce tar sands at mines on 50 square miles of land between Salt Lake City and Moab, Utah, plans to produce 2,000 barrels of oil per day by the ...

Tar sands oil has faced stiff criticism from environmental groups, which say that it’s far dirtier than its Middle Eastern counterpart despite claims from the Canadian government and industry ...

Mining and processing tar sands and shale oil, though, requires much higher quantities of water. It takes four to six barrels (124 to 186 gallons) of water to produce one barrel of tar sands oil, ...

A joint effort by Osum Oil Sands and Laricina Energy, the so-called Saleski project mined more than 430,000 barrels of oil between 2011 and 2014 using a technique called steam-assisted gravity ...

Tar sands oil is thicker, more acidic, and more corrosive than conventional oil. This means that pipelines carrying it are more likely to corrode and leak oil. Since 2010, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A group of scientists say a lack of publicly available information about the chemicals used to mine fuel from tar sands could hamper efforts to safeguard marine habitats ...

TAYLOR McKINNON: The oil shale deposits, in terms of barrels, are larger—in terms of the barrels of oil, are larger than Alberta’s tar sands. They’re not as accessible. And that’s good news.

Trains carrying mass loads of heavy crude oil from Canada’s tar sands have begun moving through the Northwest, creating the potential for an oil spill in parts of Oregon and Washington. May 15, 2025 ...

The economic struggles of Canadian tar-sands operations have been in the news for more than a year now, with falling prices and rising supplies making it increasingly difficult to turn a profit on ...

Production of "oil" from the tar sands is a very energy-intensive process. Production estimates for 2025 are that the energy input will require between 1.6-2.3 billion cubic feet ...