Canadian oil sands flyover

[Gregory Foster]

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]

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

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