The Center seeks to prevent any oil shale or tar sands development on public lands, including the unacceptable extraction and combustion of oil, the consumption of water and energy attending that ...

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 ...

Yet it has been steadily degraded, assaulted by deforestation and the extraction of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada — which ...

The sands contain the second-biggest store of oil in the world. They are estimated to hold 175 billion barrels of oil. Only Saudi Arabia holds more. But it is tricky - and costly - to extract oil ...

For years, Indigenous communities living near Canada’s oil sands have worried about the ... Image via Google Earth. An Indigenous Tar Sands healing walk took place in 2013.