This photo is making the rounds.

… Environmental Defense has called Alberta’s tar sands ‘the most destructive project on earth’, but perhaps the UN’s senior advisor on water, Maude Barlow, says it best. After a recent bus and helicopter tour of a tar sands operation in Fort McMurray she had one word to describe what she saw: Mordor. …

Treehugger

I’ve got mixed feelings.

We need to phase out petroleum based fuels. But can’t this environment be returned to “normal” (bleak tundra) after extraction?