The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

The deal gives the Chinese company 60% control of Athabasca Oil Sands Corporation's MacKay and Dover oil sands deposits in Alberta province. The two are projected to yield five million barrels of ...

Tar sands oil — even the name sounds bad. And it is bad. In fact, oil from tar sands is one of the most destructive, carbon-intensive and toxic fuels on the planet. Producing it releases three times ...

We also know that it is inefficient to convert oil sands into usable fuel relative to other sources of oil. Yet the demand for gasoline remains high, mining the tar sands of Canada remains ...

Yet it has been steadily degraded, assaulted by deforestation and the extraction of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada — which produces 58 percent of Canada’s oil and is the U.S.’s largest sou ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Areas of Fort Lauderdale Beach that were closed over the weekend due to globs of tar are back open. Nearly two miles of Fort Lauderdale Beach, from the port up to Riomar Street ...

Tar sands DEFINITION: A a combination of clay, sand, water and bitumen which can be mined and processed in order to extract oil.The greenhouse gas emissions for tar sand extraction and processing are ...