The situation is dire, with fire bans and severe fire threat alerts issued for areas close to oil sands production sites. In May, an uncontrollable fire neared Fort McMurray, the heart of Canada ...

Favorable winds were expected to push the fire away from the city of about 68,000 in northwest Canada, where many residents earn a paycheck from the nearby oil industry. The Fort McMurray fire ...

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day in 1963, when Jim Boucher was seven, he was out working the trap­line with his grandfather a few miles south of ...

A memorandum of understanding on a prospective oil sands lease was signed March 7 ... well by Energy Minister Brian Jean, also MLA for Fort McMurray-Lac la Biche. “Alberta recognizes that ...

slated to be developed 110 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alta. — a mine that would become Canada’s largest tar sands project.

The Calgary-based integrated oil and gas producer says net income in Q4 fell to $146 million, compared to $743 million in the ...

Bob Kirtley spent many years working on Oil projects including some in Alberta, such as the tar sands installations in Fort McMurray. He lived and worked in many different countries, as that is ...