If you can imagine the bleak landscape of the moon, you can envision the desolate, 54,000-square-mile tar sands of northern Alberta, a focus of controversy and concern in Canada, t...

In an entry posted to his official blog , former Vice President Al Gore praised President Obama for making the "right call" in deciding to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline ...

Those in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline project, which the State Department rejected on Wednesday, have made two grand claims: (1) The pipeline will create jobs...

Previously: How Much Greenhouse Gas? Early on, Nebraska was identified by pipeline-watchers as “Ground Zero in the Pipeline Fight” —and it's an accurate label...

The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration will announce today that it is rejecting TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline...

Aboriginal leaders from around the country came down on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver this week for voicing support of Enbridge Corp.’s...

First Nations leaders presented evidence on Tuesday during the first day of community hearings about the Enbridge pipeline proposal called Northern Gateway...

For the first time since 1949, fuel -- gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel -- was the United States' biggest export in terms of dollars, the Associated Press reports ...

As details emerge about a 28,000-barrel oil spill from a pipeline rupture in northern Alberta, Canada, environmentalists and indigenous leaders are calling for a halt to the notion...

The panel appointed by the government of Alberta to design an environmental monitoring system for the Alberta oil sands is fracturing even before its first meeting. U.S...