Fort McMurray, Canada Travel Photos
August 13, 2007
An upset condition at Suncor
The Syncrude dragline
A weird truck crash
A prototype of the largest dump …
Driving home after work.
The view from my apartment
Digging out my car.
The windchill was -59 degrees Ce…
Ice fog
The main bridge crossing the Ath…
Repairing a tire
On the airboat
I got the truck stuck
A clean truck in a sea of dirty …
A hydraulic shovel. Note that th…
The size of the pickup truck is …
A shovel bucket. I'm six feet ta…
Note the size of the truck compa…
The muskeg caught fire
One of the drill rigs
A view from the tailings dyke
Nasty weather coming in
The main pit
It's a large hole in the ground
A 300 tonne reactor vessel
They moved it at about 10 km/hr …
Notice how the bridge is flexing…
An electric shovel
A baby haul truck
The mother of all haul trucks
A coyote
A coyote
A coyote keeping an eye on me.
A D11 dozer leaves the shop
New winter boots. The running sh…
More hail
Hailing in the pit
Syncrude from a distance
Syncrude's tailings pond - basic…
Note the size of the dragline's …
The dragline
The bucketwheel excavator
The dirty side of oilsands devel…
Elemental sulphur extracted from…
Syncrude's coker spewing out gar…
Syncrude tailings pond
Driving home on 63
Pumping tailings. The plume is a…
The driver fell asleep and drove…
The crane used to get the truck …
A bald eagle
The closest I got to it before t…
A 793 haul truck
We have very large bees in Fort …
Loading a truck in the mine
Moving a large vessel to the pla…
Seaplane landing downtown
Building the new Athabasca River…
Approaching the accident
The truck involved
What was left of the truck
Keeping warm while hunting south…
Roughing it in the great outdoors
A moose crossing the haul road
A dust storm approaches
The dust storm passes
This is what happens when kids h…
Say goodbye $50,000 dollars
A fox relaxing beside the road
One giant tire
In front of the 24M
The bucket from an electric cabl…
The whole family turned out for …
A D11
The newest member of the team
Standing beside a 797B
