A Reddit user who quit his job at the Alberta tar sands project shares a video that demonstrates the devastation he was no longer willing to be complicit in causing.

Greenpeace in the UK started a wonderfully clever competition to create a new logo for BP in protest of their investment in the Alberta tar sands; events overtook them as the gulf spill became the poster child. And this is the company that was once going “beyond petroleum.”…Read the full story on TreeHugger

The open-pit Suncor Millennium Mine located north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, as pictured in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic. The mine is one of many in Alberta’s tar sands. By Peter Essick via nationalgeographic.com.

Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com’s Naturally Green section.

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That big grey blob at the top? The Alberta tar sands. The little A at the bottom? Fort McMurray, the dormitory suburb of the oil sands, a boom town full of roustabouts and roughnecks driving pickup trucks and SUVs, sometimes known as Fort McMoney.

But from cancer-plagued Fort Chip downstream from the tar sands to Fort McMurray upstream, there is one environmental blight that they won’t have to worry about any more, for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo has justRead the full story on TreeHugger

A landscape photograph by Edward Burynsky can be as frozen as it is arresting. But stare at his portraits of China’s Three Gorges Dam or the Alberta tar sands, and you can almost make out Earth in motion. In his massive prints, the built and natural environments slam into each other like tectonic plates, driven by a global economy hurtling forward at full steam. Even if there’s little actual oil to be seen in his lates…Read the full story on TreeHugger