News
Nov 15, 2011
Aerial photos of Fort McMurray, AB’s pollution
Polluted America: Amazingly colourful aerial pictures that highlight damage to Earth wrought by industry
By Leon Watson
At first glance they’re beautiful, but these incredible snaps reveal something far more ugly.
J Henry Fair’s spectacular aerial images show the devastation man has wreaked on America.
Pollution is exposed on a massive scale, creating striking vivid colours that highlight the scars of spillages, open cast mining, chemical and oil leaks, industrial decay and deforestation.
Cast-offs: This shows oil from sand extraction at Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. After the bitumen is removed, vast quantities of ‘tailings’ remain, which are the residue containing everything but the bitumen
Stain on the landscape: The process of extracting oil from sand leaves behind large tracts of yellow sulphur. Here, again at Fort McMurray, the stored sulphur is dramatically veined by a blood-red polluted river
Oil plant: Here the effects of toxins produced in an oil refinery in Alberta, Canada, are pictured. A puddle of black and dark purple expands from its centre
Deep cuts: JCBs and trucks are shown doing their work as they excavate sand at Fort McMurray, in Alberta. The picture shows the sheer scale and depth of the mining.
See photos of other places in North America: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053645/A-silk-purse-sows-ear-The-colourful-snaps-ugly-Americas-pollution.html#ixzz1do6ydV4y