When Business Insider decided to follow up a series of stories I wrote about Williston, North Dakota by sending me to the Alberta oil sands ... I learned that Canada is sitting on the second ...

I spent a week in the Athabasca oil sands last month and what I saw was a truly massive operation that's driven by the demand for something we all use every day. The Athabasca sands hold the ...

The book opens on an illustrated map of Canada and then, turning the page, Beaton narrows in on Alberta. A single dot marks Syncrude, an oil sands plant that Beaton described to Rogers as ...