The Washington Post is wailing about the environmental ruination of that great ecological wonder, the Canadian tar sands. Canada's Athabasca Basin holds more hydrocarbons (oil) than anyplace else in ...

"The co-authors wish to especially thank my mom, Yvonne Mercredi, whose expertise in interpretation and translation of the DenÈ language was heavily relied upon. Harvey Scanie's contributions of ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta -- Along the Athabasca River of remote northern Alberta is an engineer's dream -- miles of gigantic projects turning once unrecoverable oil from Alberta's tar sands into black ...

Activists taking part in the annual 'Healing Walk' through the tar sands site in Fort McMurray, Canada, call for the expansion of the energy project to end. Credit: Keepers of the Athabasca NEW YORK, ...

Eriel Deranger of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta, and Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas, speak out on struggles of frontline communities fighting tar sands. An aerial view of the Alberta ...

More evidence that Alberta’s polluting tar sands are fast becoming a liability: The government has unveiled a new provincial brand to buck its growing international reputation as an environmental ...

U.S. President Barack Obama stepped lightly around the tar sands issue this afternoon as he wrapped up his first official foreign trip and visit with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Obama said ...

I am a fifth-grader going to Walker Upper Elementary School. My friend and I are doing a project on the Athabasca Tar Sands. It is an independent project from school. I became interested in the ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Political agendas openly on display with the vernacular chosen when describing Alberta's bituminous sands The ...

TORONTO/CALGARY (Reuters) - Athabasca Oil Sands Corp's IPO, the biggest in Canada in years, heralds a return to the oil sands by investors from home and abroad, and the growing power of China to ...