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Canadian Oil Sands Boom
Jonas Bendiksen
The town of Fort McMurray, in the northeast corner of Alberta, Canada, is the epicenter of what may be North America's last great gold rush. Alberta's arboreal forests cover vast amounts of black, thick, bituminous soil, which if dug up and steamed, can be refined into synthetic crude oil.
The Canadian north contains the world's by far biggest deposits of the tar-like soil, known as Oil Sands: 1.7 trillion barrels, spread out across over 140,000 square kilometers of land. Of this 170 billion barrels are recoverable using current technology. This amounts to two-thirds of the entire Saudi oil...
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Jonas Bendiksen
2007
CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Steam rising from the Syncrude...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Streetscene in downtown...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. In downtown Fort McMurray,...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Overview of Franklin Street,...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Streetscene with many oil...
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2007
CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Streetscene along Franklin...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. A black bird takes off...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Steam rising from processing...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. At dawn, the steam coming...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. At Suncor's oil sands upgrading...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Oil sands being upgraded...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Oil sands being upgraded...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. A painting hanging in a...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. View of a part of Suncor's...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. View of a part of Suncor's...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. A digging machine stands...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Chris Strong, a driver...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. At an oil sands mine operated...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. At an oil sands mine operated...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Kevin Foley, an employee...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. At an oil sands mine operated...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Signage along the highway...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. At the Thickwood Arena...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. At the Thickwood Arena...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. At the Thickwood Arena...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. A bench with advertising...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. At a local watering hole...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. High School age teenagers...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. New housing construction...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. New housing construction...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. New housing construction...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. A "No Vacancy" sign outside...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Homeless people outside...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Homeless people outside...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. Homeless people outside...
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CANADA. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 2007. A homeless woman named...
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