Garth Lenz

Industry: Alberta Tar Sands

Syncrude Operations.Alberta Oil Sands. Northern Alberta.
   
Exposed Tar and a massive open pit mine in the Alberta Tar Sands.
   
Machines like these work 24 hours a day..
     
  
The world's largest dump trucks are dwarfed by one of many massive mines in the Alberta Tar Sands.
   
An effluent pipe dumps mine tailings into a vast tailings "lagoon" at one of Syncrude's sites in the Alberta Tar Sands.The effluent ponds of the alberta Tar Sands are so large that they can be seen from outer space. Every barrel of oil requires 3-5 barrels of fresh water to refine.
  
Syncrude Operations.Alberta Oil Sands and effluent pond. Northern Alberta.
     
  
One of many large tailings ponds in the Alberta Tar Sands. These ponds can be seen from outer space. One of Syncrude's damns holding ack a tilings pond is second only the Three Gorges damn in size.
  
Open pit mining operations in the Alberta Tar Sands.
   
One of the world's largest dumptrucks and lands impacted by Oil Sands development in the Alberta Tar Sands.