According to the study, total "well-to-wheels" greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands -- from extraction and processing through combustion of its refined products -- are approximately 5 to 15 ...

I spent a week in the Athabasca oil sands last month and what I saw was a truly massive operation that's driven by the demand for something we all use every day. The Athabasca sands hold the ...

From oil sands extraction to refining and chemical production, Calgary-based integrated oil and gas company is an essential ...

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 ...

The Center seeks to prevent any oil shale or tar sands development on public lands, including the unacceptable extraction and combustion of oil, the consumption of water and energy attending that ...

Canada’s oil sands are the fourth-largest oil deposit ... estimating emissions generated at each step of the petrochemical extraction process, including, for example, contaminants rising from ...