Staff - Manitoba Co-Operator - 9/24/2010Inmates working. Photo By Marc Vasconcellos.
Staff - Manitoba Co-Operator - 9/24/2010
Stripping the first layer of 'overburden' a layer of earth, sand and gravel up to 100 feet deep covering the bitumen ore or tar sand. The trees have been removed but, in this case, the topsoil is not being separated. Courtesy of "Beautiful Destruction"The Guardian Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action - and then kept drilli...