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Keywords
Aerial view
Climate (campaign title)
Day
Deforestation
Destruction
Forests (campaign title)
Industrial landscapes
KWCI (GPI)
Machinery
Mining
Oil (Industry)
Outdoors
Tar sands
Strip Mine near Fort McMurray
Strip mining is the method used to extract Bitumen from the oil sands because it is found relatively close to the surface. This requires the use of giant diggers and dump trucks for transportation as well as conveyor belts
Unique identifier:
GP01Z12
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
24/09/2009
Locations:
Alberta
,
Canada
,
Fort McMurray
,
North America
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Colin O'Connor
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Tar Sands & Boreal Forest in Alberta (1 of 3)
Canada's tar sands are an oil reserve the size of England. Extracting the crude oil called bitumen from underneath the Boreal Forest of northern Alberta requires a massive industrialised effort with far-reaching impacts on the land, air, water, and climate. Greenpeace is calling on oil companies and the government to stop the tar sands, for the sake of people and the planet.
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