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 ...

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 ...

Southeast Texans have no reason to oppose a plan to bring tar sands from Canada to Nederland via pipeline. In fact, they should welcome the proposal. The plan meshes with the region's existing network ...

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 ...

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 ...

Government regulators in Canada are investigating a series of mysterious oil spills around tar sands operations in Alberta. Thick oil is gurgling up unexpectedly from the ground instead of flowing ...

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Tuesday to squash a federal policy banning the use of fuels derived from Canadian tar sands and shale by the U.S. military and other federal ...

Canadian operators are focusing their drilling for natural gas and boosting oil production from tar sands, in lieu of pursuing conventional oil plays. Operators are taking greater risks in drilling ...