The latest leak in the Keystone oil pipeline in North Dakota on Tuesday continues the troubled history of the 15-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This set Tar Sands apart from most other books I've read about peak oil and climate change. Greystone Books and the David Suzuki Foundation copublished the book. And Greystone is making the ...