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 ...

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 ...

A woman sleeps with a bottle of sherry in a shopping cart at a McDonald's parking lot in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, in June 2007. Alberta’s tar sands industry is often described as an ...

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 ...

First Nations groups backed by environmental and conservationist allies in Canada are denouncing a pipeline and tanker ...

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 -- 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 ...

The mining giant—Canada’s biggest rail shipper—noted in its cancellation statement Feb. 23 that there is simply no prospect for mining and moving more bitumen from Alberta’s tar sands: “It is now ...

Alberta's sprawling tar sands region holds the second largest oil reserve in the world after Saudi Arabia, but investors lured by the promise of black gold should think twice about the environmental ...

The future of Canada’s tar sands industry has direct implications for the United States, reports Tom Kenworthy. In this 2005 file photo, mining trucks carry loads of tar sands after being loaded by ...