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 ...

The statement promised "easy approvals" and an "almost immediate start." Controversial oil pipeline project gets new life ...

The latest leak in the Keystone oil pipeline in North Dakota on Tuesday continues the troubled history of the 15-year-old ...

Trucks and workers started a cleanup effort at the site of a spill of the Keystone oil pipeline in rural North Dakota ...

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 rupture in North Dakota occurred within 2 1/2 years of a December 2022 rupture in rural northeastern Kansas that dumped ...

The targeted pipelines carry a particular type of heavy, high-carbon crude oil from Canada's tar sands region in Alberta. Nine people, including filmmakers, were arrested and removed from the ...

The Keystone pipeline—which carries hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil nearly 2,700 miles from the Alberta tar sands to refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma daily—was abruptly shut down ...

Today it costs around $10 to produce a barrel of oil from tar-sands, down 300% from three decades ago. At the forefront of this trend is Lexington Energy Services Inc., one of Canada’s fastest ...

The 2,700-mile-long (4,350-kilometer-long) pipeline originates in Alberta, Canada, and carries heavy tar sands crude oil south across the Dakotas and Nebraska before splitting to carry oil both to ...