The Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada are the largest known resource for crude bitumen in the world. Retrieving that oil from the earth is a major undertaking, one that requires massive ...

through the open window and with a long lens we were able to see what really goes on in one of the most controversial places on the planet The Alberta oil sands are spread across more than 54,000 ...

Used in previous centuries for tasks ranging from waterproofing canoes to paving roads, the abundant bitumen found in Alberta's Athabasca Oil Sands may serve another purpose: securing Canada's ...

You’ve written that people often characterize the Alberta oil sands as either “entirely ... against that dichotomy in your book? A. The images that we often see are of the giant machines.

Canada has been showered with attention for its oil sands — deposits of thick, sludgy crude in remote parts of northern Alberta — but until now most of that oil has flowed only as far south as ...

The Alberta oil sands have the third-largest reserves of ... with to the center every day for services She showed cell phone photos she shot from her backyard of the advancing fire, and photos ...

Suncor Energy Inc. SU recorded the highest crude output in October from its wells in Alberta on gains at the Firebag oil sands site. Owing to the record high production, the site has also been ter ...