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Gregory Foster  
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 More options May 23 2012, 12:02 pm
From: Gregory Foster <gfos...@entersection.org>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:02:18 -0500
Local: Wed, May 23 2012 12:02 pm
Subject: Canadian oil sands flyover
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Pretty remarkable photographic documentation of Alberta oil sands extraction operations taken from a Cessna 172 above 1000 feet.  They've put together a slideshow which walks one through the entire tar sands operation from extraction through refinement.

Business Insider (May 18) - "The Canadian Oil Sand Mines Refused Us Access, So We Rented This Plane To See What They Were Up To" by Robert Johnson:
http://www.businessinsider.com/canadian-oil-sands-flyover-2012-5

There's 265 photos in the set available on Flickr.  Unfortunately, they are often taken at oblique angles, licensed through Getty, and don't appear to have GPS coordinates.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78047884@N07/sets/72157629988382829/

Still, very happy to see this kind of reporting.  Might be worth reaching out to the journalist [ @JohnsonRW ]?

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Jeffrey Warren  
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 More options May 23 2012, 7:43 pm
From: Jeffrey Warren <j...@publiclaboratory.org>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 19:43:59 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PLOTS] Canadian oil sands flyover
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Amazing. Yes -- if anyone does get in touch with them, if they'd release
some of the images creative commons, we could rectify them and make maps
(as in Passenger Pigeon - http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/passenger-pigeon,
where I recently managed to recap some of peoples' work on one page with
some example images)

Then they could be correlated/overlaid with previous maps and future ones.

Jeff

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Gregory Foster
<gfos...@entersection.org>wrote:


 
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