Oil sands: The storm over Canada’s hottest commodity

IR photo by <A href="mailto:eve.byron@helenair.com">Eve Byron</A> - These are samples of some of the stages in oil sand production. The three vials on the left are the oil sands, the bitumen pulled from the sand and the synthetic crude once it’s processed. The three vials on the right are byproducts from processing the oil sands: a hardened rock-like substance called coke, sulphur, and tailings sand.