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Shawn Drury | 2 weeks ago | Miss This?, Trending

Republican leaders in Congress are wasting little time in pushing

an anti-environmental agenda onto the country. They’re already

are gathering votes in the Senate to override a potential veto from

President Obama on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship

tar-sands oil from Canada through the United States to the

Gulf of Mexico.

Photographer Alex MacLean offers a bird’s eye view of the

disastrous effect extracting oil from tar sands areas has

had on surrounding environments and landscapes.

His photos are below:

Terraces of open pit tar sands mine, Syncrude Mildred Lake, Alberta, Canada.

Suncor Millenium Mine, Alberta, Canada.

Mining Operations, Syncrude Mildred Lake, Alberta, Canada.

Enbridge Refinery, a storage and distribution point of tar sands oil, Hardisty, Alberta, Canada.

Welding Stations for Pipeline Assembly, Alberta, Canada.

Fertilizer and Oil Tanker Cars, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada.

Refinery along the Houston, TX Ship Channel.

Houston, TX Ship Channel.

Loading rail cars with petroleum coke, a byproduct derived from tar sands, Motiva Enterprises Refinery, Port Arthur, TX 2014.

Construction of Exxon headquarters outside of Houston, TX.

Construction of Exxon headquarters outside of Houston, TX.

Shawn Drury is Senior Editor of BNR. He’s a vegetarian, UU and pulls for Bayern. Follow him on Twitter: @ShawnDrurySC.