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 ...

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.

When he finally reached Fort McMurray, he signed up for a bus tour of the SunCor mining operation. He and a busload of perhaps 20 or more people were brought to various sites where they could get out ...

In the spring of 2008, an estimated 1,600 migratory ducks landed in the wrong place: a pond of toxic sludge in Fort McMurray, Alberta, in the heart of Canada’s oil sands. The birds, slick with oil, ...

In a sign the massive Alberta wildfire is taking a toll on oil transport, Canadian crude exports to the United States dropped 12 percent last week, while another blend of Canadian sweet crude oil ...

Rising demand for oil -- and the resulting rise in prices -- means that the United States is increasingly looking to Canada for crude. In Alberta, large deposits of oil sit in the ground in the form ...

Mayor Melissa Blake told members of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board that Fort McMurray is already financially unsustainable. The population has more than doubled to nearly 75,000 in nine years, ...

Along Highway 63 here the rolling hills give way to massive open pits, huge waste ponds and tangles of pipes and refining equipment that spew smoke into the air. In the pits, shovel trucks load dirt ...

These representatives called the President’s attention to the environmental devastation that would result from this pipeline, including the damage that would occur before the oil even reached the ...