Daily Mail: These incredible pictures show the bleak landscape of bitumen, sand and clay created by the frantic pursuit of 173billion barrels of untouched oil.
The Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada, are the world's third largest oil reserve - but lush green forests once blanketed an area there larger than England.
The region where the blackened earth now stands has been dubbed as the most destructive industrial project on earth by shocked environmentalists.
Amazing scene: Oil floats on the surface of an......
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Once this landscape was a pristine wilderness
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 19th, 2012
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