Carve fresh tracks in the Canadian Rockies. Face your wild in Canada’s Wild Side. | Travel Alberta

Join Indigenous experiences across Alberta, whether walking among buffalo or touring the Canadian Rockies. | Travel Alberta

Sampson travelling solo. | Help Alberta Wildies Society

The Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada now cover roughly 100 square miles (258 square kilometers). The facility has expanded as its production of oil increased since the 1990s - an average of 3.1 million barrels were extracted each day in 2018, which is four times as much as in 2005. Athabasca contains Earth’s largest known deposit of bitumen, a semi-solid form of crude oil that occurs as a mixture of sand, clay, and water. The additional energy required to mine and then remove the sand from