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Alan Gignoux

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The Tar Sands - Curse or Blessing
         
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The Tar Sands - Curse or Blessing
Copyright Alan Gignoux 2025
Updated Jun 2025
Topics Abstract, Activism, Aerial, Climate Change, Conceptual, Documentary, Editorial, Environment, Environmental, Fine Art, Globalization, Industrial, Landscape, Mixed Medium, Multimedia, Oil, Photography, Photojournalism, Politics, Portraiture, Reporting, Science, Short Film, Technology, Water

The Oil Sands or Tar Sands is the largest industrial project in North America, larger than England or the US State of Florida.

These images show the ecological devastation of Bitumen mining operations cause around the Alberta town of Fort McMurray, as exemplified by the lack of reclamation of the Tailings Ponds and sulpher piles. 

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