Explore: Tar Sands

2003. The name tar sands was applied to bituminous sands in the late 19th and early 20th century. People who saw the bituminous sands during this period

The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of oil sands rich in bitumen, a heavy and viscous form of petroleum

sands, found extensively in Alberta, Canada, and composed of asphalt, are colloquially referred to as "tar sands". Since prehistoric times wood tar has

development of tar sands requires extensive infrastructure, such as roads and pipelines. Canada's oil and gas sector, primarily driven by tar sands, contributes

was mined per day. The Orinoco River deposits also contain extensive tar sands in the Orinoco oil belt, which may be a source of future oil production

Tar Sands Blockade is a grassroots coalition of affected Texas and Oklahoma people and climate justice organizers who use peaceful and sustained civil

The Tar Sands Healing Walk was a 14 km annual prayer walk in demonstration against crude oil extraction in the Athabasca tar sands. It began in 2010, starting

Canada's oil sands and California bitumen is more GHG-intensive than the oil sands. As of 2013, however, producing and processing tar sands oil results

viscosity (i.e., resistance to flow): "Natural bitumen, also called tar sands or oil sands, shares the attributes of heavy oil but is yet more dense and viscous

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