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 ...

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 ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — On the second anniversary of the costliest onshore oil spill in U.S. history, environmental groups held rallies in several states Wednesday to raise concerns about ...

OSLO, May 19 (Reuters) - Shareholders of Norwegian oil and gas producer StatoilHydro <STL.OL> overwhelmingly backed the company continuing its Canadian oil sands venture despite attempts by ...

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 ...

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With a potential lawsuit targeting a decision to ban tar sands oil in South Portland, the governor’s energy chief said Tuesday that he hopes the state can eventually have ...

U.S. Oil Sands is aiming to have a commercial operation with a capacity of up to 2,000 barrels a day up and running by next year in what is called the P.R. Spring tar sands deposit in the Bookcliffs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...