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Much of the water to produce oil from tar sands comes from the Athabasca River, which runs through the northern Alberta mining district. The Alberta provincial government granted tar sands oil ...

The ruling comes as more companies are seeking to turn a profit on what has long been considered a vexing waste stream.

Energy producers are spending $15 billion a year to triple oil production from the bitumen-saturated tar sands of northern Alberta, Canada, which are the largest source of oil imports to the U.S.

The other OSAs in Alberta include Cold Lake and Peace River. Together, the OSAs are believed to hold 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen in place (oil sands are mixtures of bitumen, water, sand, and ...

Canada's oil sands mining industry on Thursday outlined proposals to release treated water from tailings ponds into northern Alberta's Athabasca River, a move environmental groups say risks ...

Canada’s Oil-Sands Miners Want to Flush Oceans of Wastewater Downstream. Waste sitting in pits could fill almost 883,000 Olympic-size swimming pools, ... As long as the water remains, ...

The oil inside the Keystone Pipeline is transported from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada — the globe's third largest petroleum reserve — to refineries in the Midwest and the Gulf Coast.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue received 911 calls around 9 a.m. for an oil spotting on the beach near Las Olas Boulevard. The caller noticed his foot had oil on it after walking on the sand, FLFR said.

The Committee, established by Alberta Environment and Protected Areas in 2024, has been tasked with determining feasible options for accelerating oil sands mine water management and tailings pond ...

Item 1 of 4 Members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation attend a town hall organized by Imperial Oil to discuss a tailings leak at the Kearl Oil Sands site, in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, March ...