Canada's Industry Minister ... billion US dollars acquisition of two oil sand projects. The deal gives the Chinese company 60% control of Athabasca Oil Sands Corporation's MacKay and Dover ...

Canada’s oil sands are the fourth-largest oil deposit ... Image via Google Earth. An Indigenous Tar Sands healing walk took place in 2013. This remote region in northern Alberta was a land ...

Tar sands oil — even the name sounds bad ... coordinated effort to stop reckless tar sands extraction both in the United States and Canada. Our efforts have targeted cross-border pipeline proposals ...

The latest leak in the Keystone oil pipeline in North Dakota on Tuesday continues the troubled history of the 15-year-old ...

Tar-sands development is already occurring in some places in the United States — and has taken off big in Alberta, Canada (a country also pondering oil-shale development). In fact, it has become one ...

Today it costs around $10 to produce a barrel of oil from tar-sands, down 300% from three decades ago. At the forefront of this trend is Lexington Energy Services Inc., one of Canada’s fastest ...

When Business Insider decided to follow up a series of stories I wrote about Williston, North Dakota by sending me to the Alberta oil sands ... I learned that Canada is sitting on the second ...

The targeted pipelines carry a particular type of heavy, high-carbon crude oil from Canada's tar sands region in Alberta. Nine people, including filmmakers, were arrested and removed from the ...

The future of Canada's six-year-old carbon pricing system is on shaky ground after 14 oil and gas CEOs and the political opposition leader this week called for its repeal. Scrapping the system, which ...

The 2,700-mile-long (4,350-kilometer-long) pipeline originates in Alberta, Canada, and carries heavy tar sands crude oil south across the Dakotas and Nebraska before splitting to carry oil both to ...