While politicians, environmentalists and Big Oil fight over the Keystone XL pipeline, the Bay Area's five refineries have quietly moved toward transporting controversial Canadian tar sands crude oil ...

If it is ever built, the Keystone XL Pipeline will exist for one reason: To move Canadian tar sands oil from remote Alberta to refineries in Texas. For the U.S., controversy over the tar sands is ...

Royal Dutch Shell will halt construction on a site that could have produced 80,000 barrels of oil per day in the Canadian tar sands, and the delay in approving the Keystone XL pipeline could be a ...

Charlie Garcia responds to readers about an underfollowed stock with a long history of rewarding shareholders.

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 ...

An extension of a Canadian oil sands pipeline cutting through six states, including nine Oklahoma counties, is being condemned by the National Wildlife Federation for creating an unsafe environment.

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 ...

It’s cheaper to find crude on the Toronto bourse than in the ground. The discrepancy has driven a frantic war to acquire MEG ...

ConocoPhillips and Calgary-based EnCana Corp. have begun construction on a $3.6 billion Illinois refinery expansion to boost processing of Canadian heavy oil. The project at the Wood River refinery ...

Congratulations to the people of TransCanada, Inc., whose long fight to connect the tar-sands-oil-pumping Keystone pipeline to the Gulf Coast of America finally reached fruition on Wednesday. Even ...

German research institute pulls out of Canadian tar sands project EXCLUSIVE / Germany’s largest and most prestigious research institute has pulled out of a Canadian government-funded CAN$25 million ...

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Strong prices for oil sands-derived crude bolstered quarterly earnings at Imperial Oil Ltd , Cenovus Energy Inc and other Canadian energy producers, although snags ...