It is displayed at the Oil Sands Discovery Centre in Fort McMurray, Alberta, where tourists can “experience the history, science, and technology of the oil sands for yourself.” Image by ...

The contractor died on July 7, 2022, at a shovel maintenance pad in the mine, about 30 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. A piece of equipment known as a pendant line that had been suspended from ...

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 ...

An Alberta company failed to properly accommodate a worker’s disability by unnecessarily delaying her return to work ...

Jacobs Engineering received a contract from Suncor Energy Services to proceed with engineering design work for Stage 3 of Suncor's Firebag in situ oil sands program near Fort McMurray, Alberta ...

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 ...