Canadian oil field looks way nicer than Azerbaijan's oil field

Looking at Edward Burtynsky's new photographs here, I feel proud that Fort McMUrray, Alberta has the cleanest and neatest looking oil fields, when compared to Belridge, California and Baku, Azerbaijan!  See for yourself below: Fort McMurray does not have the ugly poles sticking out all over the landscape like Azerbaijan. 

Canadians should be more protective of the superior aesthetics of their oil fields.  As Kathryn Marshall wrote, "foreign billionaires don't care".  Given the new analysis that more than 67% of Canada's oil sands ownership and profits are foreign-based, (as pointed out in my January post) Canadians cannot trust these foreign billionaires to maintain the neat appearance of our oil fields. 

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