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SMOKESTACKS dot the horizon; a whiff of oil hangs in the air; gargantuan vehicles clog the highway. There is a din of heavy machinery, punctuated by blasts from cannons scaring birds away from toxic ...

Researchers find that pollutants in Canada's Athabasca River are not from natural sources. You have full access to this article via your institution. Oil-mining operations in Canada's main tar sands ...

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 ...

Like a supertanker unable to make quick turns, production from tar sands in the Canadian oil patch continues to increase despite prices so low producers have to sell their output at a loss. The ...

Late 21st-century graduate students of business studying the growing problem of stranded assets will almost certainly focus on the history of Canada's Athabasca Oil Sands (a.k.a. the tar sands). The ...

Is Canada's tar sands expansion in trouble? Probably not, but the issue is complicated, so bear with me. Back on November 9, 2012 I wrote a post called A Slowdown At The Tar Sands, noting that the ...

A new study refutes a government claim (one echoed by industry) that the gonzo-scale extraction of tar sands in western Canada — and their processing into crude oil — does not substantially pollute ...

Driving down a certain stretch of a highway next to the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, you can’t see the huge crude oil fields you’re passing; a border of trees deliberately blocks the view. There’s no ...

The fate of the Alberta's tar sands mines—and the climate—may come down to the Keystone XL pipeline Red lights are flashing, but Ben Johnson pays them no mind. The long, lean, weathered engineer rests ...

AT FIRST glance, the public hearing of Canada's National Energy Board that began on May 23rd involves only a minor matter. Enbridge, an energy distributor, wants permission to reverse the flow of Line ...