Enbridge Pipelines (Illinois) LLC is demanding eminent domain authority for the condemnation of land from over 500 Illinois residents to carry synthetic crude oil derived from the Alberta tar sands ...

Rapidly-spreading forest fires that caused the frantic evacuation of about 90,000 people from the tar-sands boomtown of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, seemed to be quieting down several days ago.

Oil developers in the Canadian Tar Sands are trying to understand some odd oil eruptions around several drilling platforms where oil is coming up... Canadian Regulators Investigate Mysterious Tar ...

WASHINGTON -- Anything that lets America to continue its narcoticlike dependence on carbon fossil fuels -- whether the sprawling tar sands of Canada or the petroleum pools under Alaska's Arctic ...

The rapid growth of oil sands operations in northern Alberta has made Alberta Canada's biggest air polluter as well as filling the province's treasury. The industry has helped Alberta account for a ...

If President Barack Obama actually thought that rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline would keep Alberta tar sands oil "in the ground," Canadians would like to disabuse him of that notion. For as a ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will boost monitoring of pollution from its oil-rich tar sands and hopes this will speed up Washington's approval of a proposed $7 billion pipeline to transport heavy ...