The acquisition spree that returned much of Alberta’s oil sands to Canadian hands is so far working out as the buyers projected, with results at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. and Cenovus Energy Inc. beating expectations on the back of higher output and lower costs.

Water expert Bill Shotyk was doing research in Germany when he read a newspaper article about pollution in the Athabasca River that included heavy metals, lead and mercury.

Chromium is the Ring of Fire's main claim to fame, but there are also proposals to mine nickel there, and hopes for copper, zinc, gold and palladium.

A fine dust swirled around George Poitras as he marched with about 200 others along Highway 63 in the third annual Tar […]

Alberta has laid three charges against a major oilsands company in connection to the alleged release of hydrogen sulphide gas, a byproduct of bitumen production.

With Alberta’s Western Canadian Select crude trading at $30 a barrel less than world oil prices, Canada must build a new pipeline to the West Coast for the sake of its economic health, says Scotiabank economist Patricia Mohr.

Giant mining machines towering over Churchill Square this week won’t be extracting riches from downtown Edmonton, but are part of an exercise to build awareness of mining’s impact on everyday life.

Oil producers could lose $72 billion over nine years if a pipeline to carry Alberta bitumen to the West Coast isn’t built, […]

The Alberta government offered a record number of oilsands tours to U.S. politicians, foreign diplomats, international reporters and others in 2011 to help curtail growing criticism.

An executive with the Canadian arm of Total SA said Thursday the country will need new oilsands markets by 2020 even if all the North American pipelines proposed today are built.

make a decision on the fate of the TransCanada pipeline by the end of the year. "From the oilsands perspective, the Keystone XL pipeline is an extremely important part of developing that resource and will be a critical supply artery to the U.S.," said

Evening traffic on Highway 63 in Fort McMurray, a feeder to Alberta’s oilsands megaprojects. Photograph by: Chris Schwarz, Edmonton Journal EDMONTON - One day, an LRT train could be whisking riders past long lines of cars and trucks on their way to jobs