OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will boost monitoring of pollution from its oil-rich tar sands and hopes this will speed up Washington's approval of a proposed $7 billion pipeline to transport heavy ...

Up until now, the U.S. has had the same rules for all oil pipelines. But the EPA says pipelines that carry tar sands oil, like the proposed... EPA: Tar Sands Pipelines Should Be Held To Different ...

TransCanada is a pipeline company based in Calgary, Alberta, about 400 miles south of the world’s third-largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. There’s enough petroleum in Alberta’s ...

Enbridge Pipelines (Illinois) LLC is demanding eminent domain authority for the condemnation of land from over 500 Illinois residents to carry synthetic crude oil derived from the Alberta tar sands ...

Rapidly-spreading forest fires that caused the frantic evacuation of about 90,000 people from the tar-sands boomtown of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, seemed to be quieting down several days ago.