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Tar Sands extraction projects, located primarily in Treaty 6 and 8, have radically damaged and contaminated a huge area of land in so-called Alberta, and poisoned the Athabasca watershed.

Titled “11 Million Litres a Day: The Tar Sands’ Leaking Legacy”, the report explains that oil companies operating in the tar sands extract bitumen—a form of petroleum—from a mixture of ...

This matters nowhere more than in the tar sands, where the semisolid bitumen is hugely expensive to extract the sector really started booming when it looked like $100 a barrel was the new normal.

Extraction and export of Canada's Tar Sands, or bituminous sands, stands at the centre of the current debate concerning global warming and climate change. Oilsands are extracted by a "truck and shovel ...

Only a sociopath would suggest the Congo, Haiti or Bangladesh stop extracting fossil fuels before Canada. Found in a wealthy, heavy emitting country, the tar sands are a carbon bomb that needs to be ...

Archbishop Tutu had strong words for bitumen extraction from Alberta's oil sands the result of "negligence and greed". While deeply critical of Canada's rapid oil development, Tutu stressed that he ...

4th Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk The Deets: Friday, July 5, 2013 1:00pm in UTC-06 Fort Mc Murray Alberta, Canada The Call Out: Fwd: Background The Healing Walk started in 2010 in Fort McMurray ...

Tar sands snubbed by ‘green’ retailers Two trendy North American retail chains have washed their hands of Alberta’s high-carbon oil sands, as environmentalists intensify a campaign to ...

While in situ tar sands operations don't create the striking images of devastation that mining operations do, the "dirty oil" label still fits (Tarred By 'Dirty Oil,' Some Producers Fight Back ...

Tar sands producers are getting some $50 a barrel less for their heavy crude (which costs more to extract and refine) than the $100 a barrel conventional oil gets on the open market.

George W. Bush uses "tar sands," though he doesn't mean it in a bad way. Most others, from energy companies to the average Albertan, know the massive resource around Fort McMurray as the "oil ...