Big Beautiful Photos Of Canada's Lucrative And Destructive Oil Sands

[Kadie]

Big Beautiful Photos Of Canada's Lucrative And Destructive Oil Sands


Syncrude, the biggest refinery in the middle of oil sands



Oil on toxic water



Canadian geese fly over a mining site. The debate whether wildlife is protected from the toxic areas is still going on.




more pics at...
http://nwf.visibli.com/share/9XZQg2


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/canada-tar-sands-pictures-2010-7#syncrude-the-biggest-refinery-in-the-middle-of-oil-sands-1#ixzz1cyMdCgZZ

[Odin2005]

1. My God!

:grr:

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Don't drop any cigarette butts on that river. nt

[grasswire]

3. are those in Alberta?

I confess ignorance. My grandparents homesteaded in Saskatchewan, and I've heard they often rued not keeping the mineral rights when they finally sold the property and headed south.

[Kadie]

4. I believe they are.

Here is another link...

http://www.beautifuldestruction.ca/

[TBF]

5. Lovely ... looks like our refineries down here in Houston. nt

[jimlup]

6. Those photos should remind us of where we are heading...

Back to the beginning of the Devonian period when the Earth's atmosphere held much more CO2.

Sometimes I wonder if we will pass the great big tipping point in the sky. The one that puts Earth's atmosphere back to more like that of Venus ... I guess we'd never quite get there but we could hit a point when human life would not be possible - that's for sure.