Opponents of the Keystone XL Project and the Gulf Coast Project, both proposed by Calgary-based TransCanada, argue that tar sands oil from Northern Alberta is dirtier and more corrosive than most ...

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 ...

GU Fossil Free filed a proposal November 6 calling for divestment from tar sands oil companies. A proposal by student group GU Fossil Free calling on the university to avoid investments in tar sands ...

Canada’s tar sands are the fourth-largest oil deposit in the world, but separating the bitumen creates large volumes of toxic wastewater, which is stored in tailings ponds that now cover 270 km² (104 ...

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 ...

OTTAWA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The European Union could yet reject a proposal to classify crude from Alberta's tar sands as dirty oil, the Canadian energy minister Joe Oliver said on Tuesday, a move which ...

BRUSSELS, June 5 (Reuters) - European Union policymakers propose to scrap a mandatory requirement to label oil from tar sands as more polluting than other forms of crude following years of lobbying ...

Over at Decline of the Empire, Dave Cohen takes apart an Andrew Leonard piece in Salon on why Obama can't and won't oppose the tar sands pipeline, which will ferry oil from the Canadian tar sands our ...