The Alberta Tar Sands in Pictures

The Atlantic features photos of the tar sands operations outside Fort McMurray, Alberta.  Here's one of my favorites:

Giant dump trucks haul raw tar sands at the Suncor tar sands mining operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta, on September 17, 2014. (Reuters/Todd Korol) #

The scale of that mess up there is just amazing.  It's pretty unbelievable what lengths we go to to feed our addiction to oil.