Three decades of oilsands development viewed from space
NASA put together time-lapse satellite images of development around the Millenium Mine and the Athabasca River.
The images start in mid ’80s up to the present. As the oil price rises, the mine grows.
“The first mine (from 1967, now part of the Millennium Mine) is visible near the Athabasca River in the 1984 image,” writes NASA.
“The only new development visible between 1984 and 2000 is the Mildred Lake Mine (west of the river), which began production in 1996.”
Read the full article or alternately you can view the same image through NASA’s new iPad app.
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2 Comments
Guest
Note the growing size of that tailings Pond; oh so close to the Athabasca River
Bergbros4545
Looks like they have done a great job with this project wow three decades look at all the terrorist free oil this placed has given us.