The generic name is derived from the name of the Athabasca River, which runs through Athabasca oil sands area where the holotype was collected, and sauros, Greek for "lizard".
oil | Standard Oil | Gulf Oil | Deepwater Horizon oil spill | Shell Oil Company | Midnight Oil | 1973 oil crisis | oil refinery | oil painting | Oil platform | Julian Sands | Castor oil plant | Oil Campaign of World War II | White Sands Missile Range | oil platform | North Sea oil | Marina Bay Sands | Camber Sands | Athabasca University | Anglo-Persian Oil Company | Prestige oil spill | Oil-for-Food Programme | Oil | Indian Oil Corporation | Grange-over-Sands | Burgh by Sands | Bobby Sands | White Sands National Monument | vegetable oil | Nippon Oil |
Other tourist attractions in Northern Alberta include the Fort McMurray Historical Society-Heritage Park, Historic Dunvegan, Kimiwan Birdwalk and Interpretive Centre, Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory in the Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park, Muskoseepi Park, and the Oil Sands Discovery Centre.
One notable load of CEBX 800 was completed in January 2006, transporting a reactor for Nexen Inc. and OPTI Canada from Duluth, Minnesota to the Athabasca oil sands in northern Alberta.
He is advising mayor Melissa Blake of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, home to the Athabasca Oil Sands - in her effort to manage their rapid growth, and plan for a better, more sustainable long-term future.