Once bitumen trains are under way, unavoidable jostling separates the naptha from the tar, creating a headspace of pure naptha gas. It is the naptha gas that ignites explosively upon exposure to ...

President Obama has thankfully disapproved the notorious XL Pipeline! The Canadian material for the pipeline is not “oil sands.” It is known as “tar sands” and it is an extremely difficult material to ...

While the financially panicked government of Alberta has imposed radio silence on its contentious plan to launch a state-owned fleet of oil trains, CN has teamed with a First Nation to obsolete both ...

The battle over the best way to export Canada's oil has encountered a new question: who uses the least energy to move a barrel of oil? This week, TransCanada Corp. argued that those in the United ...

CALGARY — More trains carrying heavy oil are rumbling out of Alberta despite lingering safety concerns over hauling crude on tracks. After investing in rail-loading infrastructure to bypass congestion ...

Where there’s a will, there’s a way and in the absence of enough pipelines, Alberta’s turning to the little engines that could help move bitumen out to market. With Alberta government revenues ...

A road train carrying hot bitumen has rolled over on the Stuart Highway about 30 kilometres south of Pine Creek. Two trailers split and leaked the bitumen onto nearby scrubland about 3:00am. Senior ...