Gallery: Disturbing Aerials Reveal Canada’s Vast Tar Sand Mines

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    Oil floats on the surface of a tailing pond near Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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    An enormous pit in Fort McMurray, Canada.
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    A sweeping aerial view of strip mining near Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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    Surface mining of tar sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta leaves huge, teeth-like marks in the landscape.
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    A tailing pond near Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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    Conveyor belts transport bitumen to a refining plant.
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    An access road cuts through the tar sands, littered with massive excavators and other machines.
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    Dark shadows cover the grooves in the earth left by mining.
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    A lake filled with steaming byproduct from tar sands mining.
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    An oil slick stretches across a tailing pond.
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    Tar sands mining near Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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    An aerial view of tar sands mining in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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    Dump trucks and cranes navigate the landscape.
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