bitumen

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But Carney's memorandum of understanding with Alberta to advance an initiative that involves piping bitumen to Canada's northwest Pacific coast and building a massive port to accommodate oil tankers has drawn outrage.

From Barron's

In Fire Weather, Vaillant travels to a city where money rules, nature is an object of conquest, and a ridge on the land has been “weeping raw bitumen that glistened like liquid obsidian.”

From Scientific American

In April, tankers calling at Shandong ports experienced delays after customs authorities stepped up checks on diluted bitumen cargoes.

From Reuters

Many in the community hunt and fish downstream of Canada's huge bitumen mines, and wanted to know if the game meat in their freezers was safe to eat.

From Reuters

The tracks of the two companies don’t overlap, but connect in Kansas City, Mo., and would create the first direct route from Canada’s bitumen oil sands mines in Alberta to heavy crude refineries in Texas.

From Washington Post