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Look At These Incredible Photos Taken By Pulitzer Center Journalists Flying Over the Oilsands This Week

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By Carol Linnitt
onApr 7, 2014 @ 14:40 PDT

Journalist Dan Grossman and photographer Alex MacLean are in the middle of their week long tour of the Alberta oilsands. Their on-the-scene reporting is meant to bring greater public attention to the scale โ€“ and the stakes โ€“ of developing oil from the worldโ€™s largest deposit of carbon-intensiveย bitumen.

As Grossman puts it on the Pulitzer Center website, โ€œWe know the ground beneath Albertaโ€™s boreal forestโ€”saturated with an estimated 150 billion barrels of oilโ€”rivals all other troves of oil apart from those of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.ย We know Albertaโ€™s rich deposits underlie a territory of 54,000 square miles, as large as Iowa. But we can barely comprehend numbers this big. Alex will help us. Heโ€™ll show us waste ponds nearly the size of Manhattan and dump trucks that could swallow a McMansion whole.โ€ย ย 

Grossman has been tweeting about his experience in the oilsands region prolifically since April 4th. Below you can see some of the duoโ€™s photojournalist coverage of their trip soย far.

*ย Updated April 16, 2014:ย Journalist Dan Grossman and photographer Alex MacLean have removed one photo that was initially thought to show unrecovered oil from seepage on a CNRL site. CNRL officials insist the black substance in the photo is water mixed with soil, not oil. Since the photo was posted, the company has expressed greater willingness to allow journalists to inspect the site.

Grossman told DeSmog Canada that he’s pleased CNRL is showing greater openness about the site, which local journalists had been asking, unsuccessfully, to visit. โ€œBy excluding journalists from the site, CNRL was making it hard to know what was going on and whether company pronouncements were correct,โ€ heย said.

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