Just as we can’t imagine Britain’s rise to dominance in the capitalist system without coal, it is impossible to imagine the ...

Extracting shale oil and tight oil requires hydraulic fracturing ... Other high-cost oil comes from Canada’s tar sands and the United Kingdom’s North Sea oil fields; these become unprofitable ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The state of Utah has come up with its share of boondoggles over the years, but ...

Technology firms targeted oil from tar sands in Canada and from shale, a sedimentary rock abundant in the western United States. But in the fourth quarter of 2008, oil prices plummeted, and that could ...

thanks to shale fracking, oil is a much bigger part of the Canadian economy. The vast majority of Canada’s oil is produced in Alberta. Perhaps surprisingly, the oil sands don’t actually have ...

Karamay formation (T₂k) and Badaowan formation (J₁b) oil sands (OSs) around Karamay have undergone serious ... Cycloalkane constituents of the bitumen from green river shale. Geochimica et ...

Utah state and county leaders, however, have been eager to see Utah’s vast deposits of unconventional energy resources, such as oil shale and tar sands, developed in the hopes of spurring ...

And she has said she will delay a promised cap on emissions from Alberta’s tar sands ... Alberta’s oil-and-gas exports. This worked well for about six decades, until the shale revolution ...

U.S. imports of Canadian oil have more than doubled since 2005, with increased tar sands production driving ... particularly pipeline and shale gas expansion.” Within a week of Trudeau’s ...

Some call Utah’s vast deposits of tar sands and oil shale, another hydrocarbon resource requiring mining, a “carbon bomb” because of their potential to emit megadoses of climate-altering ...