Alberta Tar Sands From Space

By Paul Kedrosky · March 12, 2008 · ·

Eye-popping picture of the Alberta tar sands from space. Truly a scar on the face of planet.

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Comments

  1. Brian Dear says:
    March 12, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    278×214 doth not qualify as eye-popping. The image resolution needs to be about 2000 pixels wider and higher to be eye-popping. Right now it’s eye-squinting :-)

  2. Brian Dear says:
    March 12, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    Ah, clicking on the link and then zooming around in Google Maps is way more eyepopping than clicking on the image. I sit corrected. :-)

  3. mh497 says:
    March 12, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    Try pulling up New Jersey.
    Uglier, more polluted, probably less useful.

  4. Andy Nelson says:
    March 13, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Check out in-situ heavy oil production further south near Cold Lake. Steam injection is used rather than strip mining. Much less scarring.
    http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=0&ll=54.799893,-110.569496&spn=0.087077,0.31929&z=12

  5. nextnyc says:
    September 8, 2011 at 7:05 pm

    How much area does this take up? I think they have just as large mines in New Guinea…