Looking down on the oilsands and Bakken from 278 km above earth
The Alberta oilsands and Bakken oil fields in North Dakota put on a good show 278 km above earth.
Ken Paulman, writing for Midwest Energy News, conducted some cartographic detective work on a video that went viral, a time-lapse video of the earth’s surface shot from the International Space Station.
Paulman was able to pick out both the Alberta oilsands and Bakken oil fields, which were emitting a fair amount of light, probably due to gas flares.
The video received 193 upvotes on the social sharing site Reddit.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
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6 Comments
Vipeak8093
it is great! very good!
Uno
Awesome footage, well done.
Australia
Trex1814
Excellent footage! Its comforting that we have such vast oilfields close to home allowing us to be self sufficient.
Ricky50
Gas flares account for less than 1% of the actual lighting at any of the oil sands operations. If you have ever seen the refineries and plants at night they are all lit up like christmas trees. These plants run 24/7 so there are a lot of lights running to keep everyone safe.
Michael-failla
if all that activity means production and production is shipped to us for consumption, please explain why our dear leader canceled,or rather put off the keystoneXL pipeline?
2cessie2
MIKE…OUR DEAR LEADER DIDN’T WANT TO LOOSE THOSE BIG BUCKS DONATED BY THE BIG US OIL CO. IT WILL EVENTIALLY GO THRU.