Canadian oil-sand mines stuck as crude price plummets: "Canada's once booming oil sands industry is cooling fast as the plunging oil price undermines investment. More than US$60 billion (£41 billion) worth of projects to extract oil from the bitumen-rich sands of northern Alberta have been delayed in the past three months, according to a study of industry figures by The Times."...............read articleThe Athabasca Oil Sands (or Athabasca Tar Sands) are large deposits of bitumen and extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada.
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