The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

Critics say Utah is sitting on a tar sands carbon bomb. The Utah Water Quality Board has recently begun giving out permits for companies to extract from the state’s tar sands reserves.

They are mining and processing tar sands and oil shales, and essentially steaming out the oil, or splintering deep geologic layers of shale to liberate natural gas. Oil companies and the State ...

With cutbacks emerging in all sectors within oil, the potential deaths of tar sands and U.S. shale operations could spell long-term disaster on a global scale ...

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 ...

It takes four to six barrels (124 to 186 gallons) of water to produce one barrel of tar sands oil, which is four times more water than it takes to produce oil from conventional reserves, according to ...

To make matters dicier, the bulk of Utah’s fossil fuels are found on federal lands — and the BLM is considering a move to severely restrict tar sands and oil shale development.

Fracking for oil in North Dakota's portion of the Bakken Shale has begun to depress U.S. demand for Canada's dirty oil; in response, new infrastructure projects in Alberta's tar sands, such as the ...

But oil represents 40 percent of the country's exports. So the urgency to develop and export the tar sands oil has become a national priority.

But as Canada is to tar sands, Brazil and Estonia are to Kerogen/Oil Shale. For decades, both as a part of the USSR and now, Estonia has had both oil and electricity provided by extracting energy ...

Tar sands are sedimentary rocks containing a heavy hydrocarbon compound called bitumen. Unlike Canadian oil sands, oil is not currently produced from tar sands on a significant commercial level in ...