Open Pit Bitumen Mine Wide-angle image of Suncor’s Millennium Mine showing machinery moving along swooping roads and between multicolour piles and ponds. Beautiful Destruction, p. 81 Suncor Millenium Mine, Alberta, Canada...
Overburden Removal Stripping the first layer of “overburden,” a layer of earth, sand and gravel up to 30 metres deep covering the bitumen ore. The trees have been removed but, in this case, the topsoil is not being separated. ...
Four Tanks and Pipes Bitumen or diluent storage tanks at Enbridge’s Cheecham Terminal beside Highway 881 south of Anzac. The 140 kilometre Woodland Pipeline transports blended bitumen from Imperial Oil-Exxon Mobil’s Kearl Project to Cheecham Terminal; the 380...
SAGD Pad in Muskeg A SAGD pad in a wet, muskeg area of stunted conifers. This pad, connected to similar ones spread over a large area northeast of Wabasca-Desmarais, is part of Cenovus’ Pelican Lake Grand Rapids SAGD operation. Beautiful...
Arbour The arbour built in time for Treaty Days 2013 in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. Not only the oldest permanent community in Alberta, Fort Chipewyan is also the oldest settlement east of Unalaska, Alaska, north of Los Angeles and west of North Battleford, Saskatchewan....
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