The First Nations have been adamant that the cause (s) of their members’ health issues are oil sands operations and other industry activity. They also claim that government/private companies actively ...

Alberta Environment and the Alberta Energy Regulator will both be evaluating five recommendations by the Oil Sands Mine Water ...

Liberal support for oil and gas has hurt the Canadian economy. On average, other economic sectors sustain more than eight times more jobs per million dollars of GDP than oil and gas extraction.

Energy producers are spending $15 billion a year to triple oil production from the bitumen-saturated tar sands of northern Alberta, Canada, which are the largest source of oil imports to the U.S.

a brief explanation of the extraction process is necessary. Tar sands, also known as oil sands, are a mixture of sand, clay, water, and bitumen—a thick, sticky form of crude oil that is challenging to ...

The amount of air pollution coming from Canada’s oil sands extraction is between 20 to 64 ... bitumen is a thick, heavy tar-like form of petroleum that coats subsurface sand.

Canada’s tar sands have gained infamy for being one of the world’s most polluting sources of oil, thanks to the large amounts of energy and water use required for their extraction. A new study ...

The scale of Alberta’s oil sands operations ... the bitumen is buried so deep that wells must be drilled to extract it, and steam injected to mobilize it, at great energy cost.

This slurry is then taken to facilities to extract the bitumen ... it takes large quantities of energy to access tar sands oil. Approximately 14-25% of the energy obtained from tar sands is ...