This is the heart of Canada’s controversial tar sands operation. If all goes as planned, ... Instead, the local status symbol involves a massive 4×4 truck and lots of toys in the garage.

The pipeline has become a powerful symbol and political pawn this election year. ... The tar sands are oil rich and everywhere. There’s no such thing as drilling a dry hole.

The Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry crude oil from Canadian oil sands down to the U.S. Gulf Coast, isn't just an infrastructure project. It's also a symbol for the fight over the future of ...

The group was preparing to protest the Keystone XL plan -- a proposed pipeline that would carry imported oil 1,700 miles south from the Alberta tar sands in Canada all the way to Texas refineries ...

The folks invested in Canadian tar sands are growing tired of twiddling their thumbs. After years of pushing and waiting, they still don’t have enough capacity to move all the oil they want to ...

LOOK west from the office towers of the energy companies that dominate Calgary, and the view is spectacular: rolling prairies rise to tree-clad foothills, with the jagged, snow-capped peaks of the ...

Between 1995 and 2006, when tar-sands extraction was accelerating, Alberta’s First Nations suffered a sudden 30 % increase in cancer rates. KXL, if built, also threatened the world’s largest ...

For Canada, the story of the tar sands' future hinges on the great economic pressure the country is feeling to bring its vast reserves of crude oil to market.. With more than 10 percent of the ...

In 2011, climate change scientist and activist, James Hansen, published the report “Silence Is Deadly.” The paper contained an alarming message about a proposed pipeline, which would carry about ...

In the 1970s, it was a photo of Earth from space taken by Apollo 17 that galvanized the environmental movement. The so-called "Blue Marble" photo showed earth as a lonely sphere adrift in space.

On a cold winter night on January 22, 71-year-old grandmother Carol Marsh sat down in front of a megaload-sized vehicle hauling tar sands processing equipment through Missoula, Mont., en route to ...