The tar sands underlie much of Alberta's subarctic boreal forest, an environment of coniferous woodlands, muskeg bogs, lakes, rivers and marshes. Although summer days are long, the growing season is ...

More evidence that Alberta’s polluting tar sands are fast becoming a liability: The government has unveiled a new provincial brand to buck its growing international reputation as an environmental ...

Enbridge Pipelines (Illinois) LLC is demanding eminent domain authority for the condemnation of land from over 500 Illinois residents to carry synthetic crude oil derived from the Alberta tar sands ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, August 9, 2013 (ENS) – To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from oil production in the Alberta tar sands, the government of Canada is investing in a demonstration-scale algal ...

Oil developers in the Canadian Tar Sands are trying to understand some odd oil eruptions around several drilling platforms where oil is coming up... Canadian Regulators Investigate Mysterious Tar ...

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 ...

Up until now, the U.S. has had the same rules for all oil pipelines. But the EPA says pipelines that carry tar sands oil, like the proposed... EPA: Tar Sands Pipelines Should Be Held To Different ...

WASHINGTON, DC, February 27, 2014 (ENS) – The governments of Alberta and Canada have been “lying,” to cover up the health impacts of the Canadian tar sands industry on northern Alberta communities, a ...

The rapid growth of oil sands operations in northern Alberta has made Alberta Canada's biggest air polluter as well as filling the province's treasury. The industry has helped Alberta account for a ...

WASHINGTON -- Anything that lets America to continue its narcoticlike dependence on carbon fossil fuels -- whether the sprawling tar sands of Canada or the petroleum pools under Alaska's Arctic ...

On today’s show we’ll speak with Kanahus Manuel, founder of the Tiny House Warrior Movement, speaking about the Alberta Tar Sands and the recent Justin Trudeau resignation. Learn more about the Tiny ...