More Growth Ahead News accounts about Alberta's current oil sands boom typically portray Fort McMurray as a once-sleepy little town that now finds itself in the sights of majors from as far away ...

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day in 1963, when Jim Boucher was seven, he was out working the trap­line with his grandfather a few miles south of ...

In 2014, Sarens was part of the installation of the oil sands process units at the client facility near Fort McMurray, AB by using units such as the Demag CC8800-1 and SPMTs (Self-Propelled ...

A memorandum of understanding on a prospective oil sands lease was signed March 7 ... well by Energy Minister Brian Jean, also MLA for Fort McMurray-Lac la Biche. “Alberta recognizes that ...

Shell Canada Ltd. is exiting the oilsands in a deal with Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. that will see it increase its stake in the Scotford upgrader and Quest Carbon Capture and Storage facility.

Keyano Huskies Basketball: Upcoming home games at the Syncrude Sport and Wellness Centre are against TKU Eagles on Feb. 14-15. Women’s team starts at 6 p.m. on Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday, men’s team ...

Fort McMurray is surrounded by wilderness in the heart of Canada’s tar sands — the world’s third largest reserves of oil behind Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. You can’t buy a revolution, but you can help ...

The meteoric growth of tar-sands boomtown Fort McMurray has slowed but it might be just the break this unbalanced town needs. Are all remakes bad news? Not when you are the world’s smartest cinema ...