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

Tar sands "are sedimentary rocks containing bitumen, a heavy hydrocarbon complex," says the Bureau of Land Management. That definition is included in its final environmental impact statement for its ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Tar Sands Market By Technology (Cyclic Steam Stimulation, Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage), and By Region, Competition Forecast and Opportunities, 2027" report has ...

“Tar sands oil means clear-cut forests and poisoned water – plus broken treaties with First Nations peoples and staggering levels of carbon pollution,” said Kirkland. The rally came days after the ...

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 ...

BOOK CLIFFS, Utah (AP) - On a remote Utah ridge covered in sagebrush, pines and wild grasses, a Canadian company is about to embark on something never before done commercially in the United States: ...

In 2011, the Utah Division of Water Quality green-lighted a water permit for what could be the first tar-sands mine not only in Utah but the country. It’s a distinction of pride for the owners of U.S.

Activists in South Portland are gathering signatures for a citizens' initiative to restrict the development of infrastructure they say would be crucial to exporting tar sands from the city's ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced Tuesday it anticipates exiting all tar-sands investments by Dec. 31, two years ahead of its commitment announced in 2019. The insurance and ...

It’s past time to stop building new fossil fuel pipelines. They are costly, unsustainable, dangerous and will lock us into further decades of leaked methane and carbon emissions, two major ...