Tar sands oil — even the name sounds bad. And it is bad. In fact, oil from tar sands is one of the most destructive, carbon-intensive and toxic fuels on the planet. Producing it releases three times ...

It’s now even more climate-heating than the notorious Canada tar sands oil refined in California ... these hellscape conditions like the megadrought,” said John Fleming, a scientist at the Center’s ...

Cenovus Energy's oil sands business hit a new production high in the fourth quarter, helped by record output from its Foster Creek and Lloydminster thermal assets in Alberta, Canada. Offshore ...

Shell Canada Ltd. RYAD-F is exiting the Alberta oil sands, swapping its remaining 10-per-cent interest in the Albian mine in the province’s north for a greater stake in an upgrader and carbon ...