South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves stepping in dark, greasy balls of oil, possibly due to a spill offshore, officials said Saturday. The source of the tar ...

CALGARY -- Tar-sands spending has doubled in three years but energy companies are having a harder time putting more money into the ground to take advantage of record commodity prices. Labour shortages ...

A major project is in the works for Alberta’s north that would connect Fort McMurray to the rest of the region, including Grande Prairie. CBC’s Fort McMurray reporter Dennis Kovtun and CBC’s Grande ...

About a third of the buildings in the mountain resort town have burned, raising questions about preparedness and the role of climate change. By Ian Austen While I had covered many wildfires by 2016, I ...

Canada’s tar sands are the fourth-largest oil deposit in the world, but separating the bitumen creates large volumes of toxic wastewater, which is stored in tailings ponds that now cover 270 km² (104 ...

A ring of wildfires has erupted around Canada’s unofficial oil-sands capital of Fort McMurray, adding new threats to crude production from the world’s third-largest petroleum reserves. Eight ...

A ring of wildfires has erupted around Canada’s unofficial oil-sands capital of Fort McMurray, adding new threats to crude production from the world’s third-largest petroleum reserves. Eight ...

Wildfires in northern Alberta continued to disrupt some oil sands operations as Cenovus Energy demobilized this week non-essential staff at its Sunrise project as a precaution amid heat and wildfire ...

Suncor Energy Inc. (NYSE:SU) reportedly temporarily shut down its 215,000 barrel-per-day Firebag oil sands site in northern Alberta. The company also reduced some production as a precautionary measure ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Alberta officials say a wildfire in western Canada that forced thousands of residents from their homes in the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray earlier this month is ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A wildfire that forced thousands of residents from their homes in western Canada's oil sands hub of Fort McMurray earlier this month is now under control, Alberta ...

Alberta Wildfire incident commander Gavin Hojka gestures to a map of a wildfire in the incident command post in Fort McMurray, Alta., Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP) ...