Oil-Sand - Perhaps everything you would want to know-Photo Essay

[packman]

"Barack Obama killed the Keystone XL pipeline in November 2015, stating it wouldn't have helped lower gas prices or create that many jobs. He also said the long-term contribution to climate change — possibly more than 22 billion metric tons of carbon pollution, according to Scientific American — wasn't worth the loss of America's global leadership on fighting emissions that exacerbate global warming.
"If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming inhabitable, if not inhospitable [...] we have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground," Obama said.

Trump's televised revival of Keystone XL didn't mention its steep environmental costs, including the 54,000 square miles (140,000 square kilometers) of pristine Alberta wilderness that may be industrialized to feed it.

"We're not saying the project is good or bad. We're just saying the scale and severity of what's happening in Alberta will make your spine tingle," Robert Johnson, a former Business Insider correspondent, wrote after flying over the Canadian oil sands in May 2012"

Photo Essay at:
http://www.businessinsider.com/keystone-xl-canada-oil-sands-photos-2017-1/#to-get-a-look-at-the-oil-sand-mines-we-rented-this-cessna-172-which-the-pilot-was-allowed-to-bring-down-to-1000-feet-through-the-open-window-we-could-see-what-really-goes-on-in-one-of-the-most-controversial-places-on-the-planet-1

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Thank you, packman

Looks like mountain top removal in West Virginia and Kentucky. So what, there are floods and toxic pollution, the workers are paid a pittance for sealing their own graves? "When will we ever learn?"

[gratuitous]

2. The photos need to be widely disseminated

People can dismiss reports of oil spills and pipeline leaks with an airy wave of the hand; the popular media do it all the time. But photos of the barren moonscapes left behind by the extraction industries and their feckless management of their infrastructure are hard to excuse.

Because once the pipeline leaks out a few thousand barrels of product (and pipelines always leak), when folks go looking for the corporate entities to hold them responsible, they invariably find that the corporate shell is as empty as Obi-wan's robe. The principals have skedaddled, looting the corporate coffers on their way out, and there's nobody left to pay for the massive clean up required. Well, except us, of course.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R